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58.8
Drama

Magdana's Donkey

Drama

Magdana's Donkey

1955 · 50 min · Georgian

Magdana's Donkey (1955) is a solid-tier movie on goodrecmovies, rated 7.6/10 on IMDb from 667 votes. Updated

58.8GRM score
★ 7.6IMDb · 667

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…