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name: "Giorgi Mdivani"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/giorgi-mdivani"
fi1m_id: "giorgi-mdivani"
imdb_id: "nm0574841"
tmdb_id: 2597393
wikidata_id: "Q4286534"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "26 September 1905"
died: "11 October 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:23:24.480061+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Giorgi Mdivani

## Identity

Giorgi Mdivani

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/giorgi-mdivani
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** giorgi-mdivani
- **IMDb ID:** nm0574841
- **TMDB ID:** 2597393
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4286534
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4286534, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574841/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2597393

Writer. Born 26 September 1905 in Kutaisi, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire. Died 11 October 1981.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 26 September 1905, Kutaisi, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
- **Died:** 11 October 1981
- **Also known as:** Gheorghij Mdivani, Georgiy Mdivani, Г. Мдивани, G. Mdivani
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4286534, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574841/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2597393

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Red and the White*](https://film.one/film/the-red-and-the-white.md) (78)

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## Biography

Giorgi Mdivani (also credited as Georgiy Mdivani or Gheorghij Mdivani) was a Georgian Soviet playwright and screenwriter. He began writing plays in 1922 and contributed screenplays to Soviet cinema from the late 1920s onwards, working in both Georgian and Russian.

His credits include the co-written screenplay for *The Red and the White* (1967), directed by Miklós Jancsó, and *Sunflower* (1970). He received the title of Honoured Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1961 and the State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1978.

Mdivani studied law at Tbilisi University and began working in film studios in 1928. He was a member of the Communist Party from 1944.

*Sources: imdb.com, ru.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Red and the White* (1967), Fi1m 78, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-red-and-the-white.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Birthday of Teresa* (1980), Writer
- *House on Lesnaya Street* (1980), Writer
- *The Bay of Happiness* (1978), Screenplay
- *My Destiny* (1974), Screenplay
- *My Destiny* (1974), series, Screenplay
- *Messengers of Eternity* (1971), Writer
- *Sunflower* (1970), Screenplay
- *Far to the West* (1969), Screenplay
- *The Red and the White* (1967), Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-red-and-the-white.md)
- *The Last Vendetta* (1966), Screenplay
- *მიმინო* (1965), Writer
- *A Great Road Ahead* (1963), Screenplay
- *Russia sotto inchiesta* (1963), Screenplay
- *Kind People* (1961), Writer
- *The End of Old Beryozovka* (1960), Writer
- *Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm* (1959), Screenplay
- *Young One From Sabudara* (1958), Writer
- *In Our Courtyard* (1956), Screenplay
- *Soldier Ivan Brovkin* (1955), Screenplay
- *Dangerous Trails* (1955), Screenplay
- *Повесть об охоте* (1952), Screenplay
- *South Ossetia* (1951), Writer
- *Private Aleksandr Matrosov* (1947), Screenplay
- *In the Mountains of Yugoslavia* (1946), Screenplay
- *Cantankerous Neighbors* (1945), Screenstory
- *Moscow Skies* (1944), Theatre Play
- *The Bridge* (1942), Writer
- *Homeland* (1940), Writer
- *The Peasants* (1939), Screenplay
- *Lost Paradise* (1937), Screenplay
- *The Flying Painter* (1937), Screenplay
- *Shakir* (1932), Writer
- *Shock-Worker* (1931), Writer
- *Ugubziara* (1931), Screenplay
- *Amerikanka* (1930), Writer
- *Foster-father* (1930), Writer
- *My Grandmother* (1929), Screenplay
- *Youth Wins* (1928), Screenplay

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR 1978: State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR (won)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples 1975: Order of Friendship of Peoples (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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