Magdana's Donkey
1955 · 72 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 613 VOTES · DIR. Rezo Chkheidze, Tengiz Abuladze
Overview
This chamber drama is set in Georgia on the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A simple peasant family makes its living by selling yogurt which the Magdany widow takes every morning to the town market. Once, in their mother’s absence, the children – six-year-old Mikho and three-year-old Kato – found an abandoned donkey on a road leading to their village. The foundling was fed, tended, and the moment the donkey opened its big, tender eyes, it was named “Lurdja”, which means “blue-eyed”. Surrounded by love and care, the donkey became a big help in the poor household. But this idyll was not to last long…
Dialogue Timeline — 496 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 MAGDANA'S DONKEY
00:02:55 Mommy!
00:04:05 Well, daughter.
00:06:45 Yogurt! Good fresh yogurt!
00:08:27 It's your fault. Take the sacks, move it.
00:10:36 Wait. Sofo, Shiko, Vano! Everybody come here!
00:12:11 Ask for grandma Ketevan. Go, don't forget.
00:15:22 And me too!
00:17:28 He woke up.
00:19:04 Look, our Lurdja is eating!
00:21:38 I don't want to part with Lurdja.
00:22:44 Lurdja will get hungry in the city, and you give him this.
00:25:01 For whom are you buying them? What age?
00:26:15 Wait, you won't get away. You have to pay her.
00:27:25 Hey, people!
00:28:32 Lurdja? Lurdja?
00:31:38 Where's he?
00:34:14 You'll take him away tomorrow.
00:37:22 I'll go alone to Grandfather, and you'll be taken by strangers.
00:38:47 It was God's gift to my little kids! You have no right to take him away!
00:40:18 They took our Lurdja away! They took Lurdja!
00:42:30 Well...
00:44:08 Headman, you know
00:45:35 He was not fed, not watered, was exhausted by work and beaten.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed496
Dialogue density6.9 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line00:45:35
Production Record
DirectorRezo Chkheidze, Tengiz Abuladze
LanguageKA
IMDb votes613