A Wedding of Jays (ჩხიკვთა ქორწილი, 1957) by Arkadiy Hintibidze

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A Wedding of Jays
ჩხიკვთა ქორწილი
Свадьба соек
Chxikvta qorwili (ka)
Svadba soyek (ru)

Year 1957
Director(s) Hintibidze Arkadiy
Studio(s) Georgia Film
Language(s) Georgian
Russian
Genre(s) Literature (Rus./USSR minorities)
Romance
Animation Type(s)  Drawn (cel)
Length 00:19:16
Wordiness 10.17
Animator.ru profile Ru, En
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Subtitles:
Chxikvta qorwili.1957.en.1.25fps.1644308268.srt
Date: February 08 2022 08:17:48
Language: English
Quality: ok
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Creator(s): Eus, Niffiwan

Chxikvta qorwili.1957.en.2.25fps-fan-restor.1644306750.srt
Date: February 08 2022 07:52:30
Language: English
Quality: ok
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Creator(s): Eus, Niffiwan

Chxikvta qorwili.1957.ru.1.25fps.1644308242.srt
Date: February 08 2022 08:17:22
Language: Russian
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Creator(s): Асса Радонич, Niffiwan

Chxikvta qorwili.1957.ru.2.25fps-fan-restor.1643656522.srt
Date: January 31 2022 19:15:22
Language: Russian
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Creator(s): Асса Радонич, Eus




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Description:

A traditional Georgian wedding ceremony (of two jays) is interrupted by a mean-spirited crow and a hungry fox. Based on the story by Vazha Pshavela.

The name is an allusion to the Georgian expression "happy as a jay". Scenes from this animated film were later re-used in the 1984 live-action film with the same name.

The first video above is the Russian version (though with songs in Georgian), scanned from Betacam by the RuTracker animation scanning project in May 2024. The next two videos are the original Georgian version. Unfortunately, only very poor video copies of the Georgian version seem to survive. One of the two "Georgian" videos is an attempt at "restoration", but has plenty of its own flaws (including a few minor cuts throughout, hence why there are two sets of subtitles).

Awards:
1958 - All-Union Film Festival, Moscow. 3rd Prize in the Animation category

 

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