Soldier father

Summer of 1942. The old Georgian peasant, Georgy Makharashvili, discovers that his son, a tankman, was wounded and ended up in a hospital. George is going to visit his son and goes to him. While he was getting there, his son recovered and went to the front. George decides to remain in the army and seeks admission to the motorized rifle military unit. Together with his comrades in arms, with battles, he gets to Germany. In one battle over the two lower floors of the house, George finally finds his son, but he dies after being wounded in his arms.

• Sergo Zakariadze - Georgy Makharashvili
• Vladimir Privalsev - Senior Sergeant Nikiforov
• Alexander Nazarov - Arkady Ershov
• Alexander Lebedev - Nikolay Nazarov
• Vladimir Kolokoltsev - Grisha
• Yura Drozdov - Borya
• Ivan Kosykh - accordion player
• Vitya Kosykh - Vasya
• Victor Uralsky - disabled sailor
• Ketevan Bochorishvili - Maria, wife of George
• Vladimir Picek - hospital registrar
• Peter Lyubeshkin - General
• T. Sapozhnikova - girl-fighter
• Nikolay Barmin - Colonel
• Felix Stepun - surgeon
• Inna Vykhodtseva - a woman with children on a wagon, Vasya’s mother
• Romuald Vildan - musician
• Gia Kobakhidze - Goderdzi Makharashvili, son of George
• Elena Maximova - mistress of the house
• Radner Muratov - lieutenant
• Alexandra Denisova - teacher (not in the credits) ^[1]
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - voice-overs

During the Great Patriotic War, the script writer of the film Suliko Zhgenti went to the front as a volunteer, served in the amphibious assault forces , was seriously wounded and was awarded four medals. Suliko spoke about a colleague who became the prototype of the protagonist - the Bodbishevsky collective farmer, who fought with him in one unit. Despite the years, the old man had remarkable strength. Pitying the young soldiers, he took the machine gun from them and carried it several kilometers on his shoulders. In the division, he was a universal favorite. To the soldiers the old man replaced his father, it happened, he screened yesterday's boys from bullets. The scriptwriter retained the protagonist his real name - Georgy Makharashvili.

The script writer recalled how in the spring of 1942, the sounds of a Georgian melody were awakened by Novorossiysk sleeping in the dugout fighters: George Makharashvili sang. Loosening the earth with a bayonet, he sowed wheat. The soldiers looked in surprise at their fellow soldiers. “Spring is coming, spring ...” sang the old man, noticing anyone.
He was patronized by George and Suliko Zhenti himself. After receiving news that his son was in the hospital, his father went to visit Suliko, but did not find him in the infirmary. This real story formed the basis of the script of the film. ^[2]

In a village in Kakheti, where Georgy Makharashvili was born, a monument was erected to this hero. In addition, there is the Museum of Glory, around which are tombstones with the names of the villagers who died in the war. According to these plates, it is clear that about 40% of the soldiers who did not return from the war bore the surname Makharashvili.

On May 9, 2014, the 50th anniversary of the painting was celebrated in Tbilisi at the State Museum of Theater, Music, Cinema and Choreography. According to the tradition established a year ago, the director of the film Rezo Chkheidze left a handprint and an autograph in The Niche of the Immortals. ^[3]

According to Rezo Chkheidze, the best review of the film was a letter that the director received from Sevastopol. It described a specific case when a young man came to the police to confess to theft. When asked why he took this step, he replied: "I just watched the movie" Father of a Soldier "and decided that I would honestly live in this world."

• Award for best actor Sergo Zakariadze at the IFF in Moscow in 1965.
• Prize of the Lenin Komsomol Sergo Zakariadze in 1965.
• Lenin Prize of Sergo Zakariadze in 1966.
• Capitoline Jupiter Prize to Revaz Chkheidze at the Capitoline Jupiter Film Festival in Rome in 1966.
• Prize of the Lenin Komsomol of the Georgian SSR Revaz Chkheidze in 1970.

• Finding a vineyard in Berlin, Makharashvili begins to sing " Shen Har Venahi " (You are the vine) - the Georgian church hymn to the Virgin .
• In the scene with the vineyard, instead of the T-34-85 , the more advanced T-44 is used , which was not involved in the hostilities.
• In some scenes, the IS-3 is used , which also did not participate in the hostilities.
• In the episode with the attack of Soviet tanks, extras actors are armed with AK post-war machine guns
• On May 10, 2013, the restored and colorized version of the film was shown on Channel One .

• Movie on the site of the Cinema Theater
• Soldier's father (video)
• Baku hosts presentation of legendary film "Father of a Soldier" in color
• “ Rezo Chkheidze. "Father of a soldier. " Studio "Neophyte". Bible story (program) . TV channel "Culture" . 05/16/2015.