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!
00:04:08 There've been no buyers. And it was so hot to walk.
00:06:52 Hey, Vano! Vano!
00:08:58 What is it now?
00:11:06 Yogurt!
00:12:47 Calm down, dear, it's all right.
00:15:29 Mikho spotted him, he was lying on the road.
00:18:03 Mister headman, maybe the donkey will get well.
00:19:57 He's become a fine donkey!
00:21:55 He bared his teeth, and his tongue was out like this.
00:23:00 I got to go.
00:25:29 These are better.
00:26:35 How many kopecks is your loss worth?
00:27:47 Who asked you to nurse him?
00:30:46 Kato, I made it! Give it back!
00:32:16 The judge...
00:34:56 I'll sit on Lurdja and never get off!
00:38:03 Oh, you're all wet! Let's go home now.
00:39:16 Mommy, take me along.
00:41:11 Why no witnesses? All our village are my witnesses.
00:43:30 Who summoned you?
00:44:50 Everybody knows that my donkey was healthy!
00:48:30 The End
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed496
Dialogue density6.9 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line00:48:30
Production Record
DirectorRezo Chkheidze, Tengiz Abuladze
LanguageKA
IMDb votes613