Merab Ninidze
Merab Ninidze (born 3 November 1965) is a Georgian actor. He is best known for the roles of Oleg Penkovsky in The Courier, Walter Redlich in Nowhere in Africa, and Giulio Sabbadin in Conclave. Ninidze was born into an artistic family and was introduced to acting at a young age. He was heavily involved in the theatrical world in Georgia. At the age of 13, he successfully auditioned for the role of Prince Edward in Shakespeare's Richard III at the Rustaveli State Academic Theatre in Tbilisi, which premiered in 1979 and toured the UK three times. From 1982 to 1985, he studied at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Georgia State Film Institute under the guidance of Gizo Jordania, which eventually led him to become a full-fledged member of the Theatre Company. Later, he would perform in plays such as Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Diary of Anne Frank, and David Kldiashvili's Step-Mother.
Ninidze's first major film role was in Tengiz Abuladze's 1984 film Repentance, in which he played Tornike Aravidze. At the age of 25, Ninidze immigrated from Georgia following the Civil War in Georgia. During this time, he was offered a role in Goran Rebic's Yugofilm, which led him to work in Vienna for several months. For more than 20 years, Ninidze has worked in Georgian, Russian, German, and English-language film and TV.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.4196 |
| Birthday | 1965-11-03 |
| Place of Birth | Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR |
| Also Known As |
2001
Nowhere in Africa
7.044/192
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel ref...
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Nowhere in Africa
1999
Luna Papa
6.2/42
The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with he...
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Luna Papa
2002
August der Glückliche
8/1
When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins: a...
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August der Glückliche
2008
The Rainbowmaker
4.7/3
Datho has been innocent in prison for many years. When he comes home nobody wants him. His angelic wife Elene has fun with a fire-eater. The two child...
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The Rainbowmaker
2000
England!
7/4
Valeri Sikorski knows from his doctors that his days are numbered because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He wants to make a last adventure in his...
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England!
2019
Russian Whispers
0/0
Planning a wedding is rarely this tense. Even among gangsters. Parents of the groom visit the home of their soon-to-be-in-laws, where they plan the up...
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Russian Whispers
2012
Russisch Roulette
4.4/5
When her young son Nikolai disappears without a trace in the subway, German journalist Katharina Wagner suddenly realizes that she has powerful enemie...
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Russisch Roulette
2011
4 Days in May
6.1/22
Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly ba...
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4 Days in May
2025
In the Name of Blood
5.948/30
In the working-class neighborhoods of Nice, a pillar of the local Georgian community is murdered. His son Tristan, who aspires to become an orthodox p...
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In the Name of Blood
1991
Crossroad
7/3
Georgian Movie Directed By Levan Kitia In 1991.
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Crossroad
2010
The Cameramurderer
4.875/8
What starts out as a relaxing weekend at lake Neusiedl ends in fear and horror for two friendly couples. Three children have gone missing from the nei...
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The Cameramurderer
1987
Repentance
7.139/72
The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly...
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Repentance
2005
Conny und die verschwundene Ehefrau
2/1
Connie needs money. When a mysterious watch manufacturer asks her to investigate possible insurance fraud, the problem seems to be solved for the time...
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Conny und die verschwundene Ehefrau
1986
Full Circle
9/2
Tbilisi, early 1980s. From the outside, everything seems calm, but behind this tranquillity there is turmoil. Manana, who used to be a movie star, is...
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Full Circle
2004
Cattolica
10/1
Stefan, a gay bartender in a trendy club, doesn't care a lot about his professional and personal future. One night, the mysterious Martin stares at hi...
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Cattolica
2006
Not All Were Murderers
6.7/11
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his...
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Not All Were Murderers
2012
Love with an Accent
5.375/8
From odd situations to complicated emotions, various obstacles test a group of people in their pursuits of true love in this collection of stories.
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Love with an Accent
2011
From Tokyo
6.5/4
This film is a very short story about a former rescue worker returning from Tokyo – a man who is quite successful in his everyday life, and who, after...
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From Tokyo
2025
April
6.8/25
Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after a newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, dete...
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April
2019
Mutterliebe - Der Usedom-Krimi
6.333/3
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Mutterliebe - Der Usedom-Krimi
2002
Verlorenes Land
3/3
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Verlorenes Land
2013
Unter Feinden
6.5/5
Police officers Kessel and Driller are supposed to be on the lookout for an internationally wanted war criminal. But Kessel is a junkie, gets into a f...
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Unter Feinden
2015
Bridge of Spies
7.243/7414
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison,...
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Bridge of Spies
2013
Invasion
4.429/7
Joseph is in his mid-sixties and has just lost his beloved wife. Everything in his big old mansion reminds him painfully of the years they spent toget...
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Invasion
1997
Yugofilm
5.8/8
The lives of a Serb family are torn apart by the pressures of the not-too-distant war with the Croats. The film addresses the fundamental question "Ca...
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Yugofilm
2004
Sterne leuchten auch am Tag
8/1
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Sterne leuchten auch am Tag
2012
Blutadler
6.8/7
A cruel serial killer keeps the Hamburg police in suspense. Two women have already fallen victim to him. Both were killed after a Viking ritual, the s...
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Blutadler
2015
Under Electric Clouds
6.1/36
Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. Evolving around an unfinished building,...
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Under Electric Clouds
2014
Bis zum Ende der Welt
7.5/2
Maria Nikolai was once a celebrated musician. 20 years ago she came to Hamburg with her husband, who has since died. But her neighborhood, which used...
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Bis zum Ende der Welt
2011
My Best Enemy
5.8/31
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed...
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My Best Enemy
1994
Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen
6/11
This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 aro...
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Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen
2012
Das Geheimnis in Siebenbürgen
6/1
Lukas Schauttner is a management consultant. However, as a partner in his Berlin consulting company, he sees difficult times ahead. So he has to accep...
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Das Geheimnis in Siebenbürgen
2015
B/W
5.2/27
Nurick and Yaroslav are trying to robe a criminal boss. Unfortunately Nurick dies but returns to the world with a mission: to be the guardian angel of...
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B/W
2008
Mediator
5/3
The detective will have to figure out the mysterious death of an English secret agent who came to Tbilisi to sell important secret information.
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Mediator
2015
After Love
2/2
A cinematic menage-a-trois between a photographer, a rentboy and a transsexual call girl.
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After Love
1998
Suzie Washington
5.571/7
Nana Iaschwili, a teacher from East Europe, wants to emigrate to America to start a new life. After landing in Vienna, the authorities notice her fals...
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Suzie Washington
2002
Icarus
5.5/4
Lena is homeless. She couldn't get a foothold in the big city, she hasn't been at home in the country for a long time and she only knows the big, wide...
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Icarus
2015
Thank You for Bombing
5/9
Thank you for Bombing accompanies three correspondents to their working place in conflict areas and gives an insight into their daily routine aside fr...
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Thank You for Bombing
2015
The Puppet Syndrome
6/10
Since early childhood Peter has been obsessed with the world of puppets, but his greater obsession is with a real girl, Lisa. He crafts his perfect wo...
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The Puppet Syndrome
2005
Schön, dass es Dich gibt
5.5/8
Jackies' quiet life as a housewife and English teacher ends abruptly when her husband informs her that he is leaving her for a younger woman. In a que...
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Schön, dass es Dich gibt
2006
Liebes Leid und Lust
2/2
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Liebes Leid und Lust
2001
Bride of the Wind
4.222/9
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
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Bride of the Wind
2016
Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free
6.5/31
Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who enraptured 19th century Europe’s greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by...
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Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free
1987
Temo
6.5/2
The young protagonist of the film is in love with an older woman with children, and this further complicates his already tense relationship with his f...
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Temo
2017
Hostages
6.136/59
Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds...
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Hostages
2017
Jupiter's Moon
5.552/124
A young refugee, Aryan, is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border. While tending him back to health, a doctor at a refugee camp dis...
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Jupiter's Moon
2011
Winter's Daughter
5.6/7
For 11-year-old Kattaka it's an escape: she's looking for her biological father, a Russian sailor whose ship is currently moored in Gdansk and whose e...
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Winter's Daughter
2017
My Happy Family
7.389/90
In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to...
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My Happy Family
2001
Ene mene muh – und tot bist du
3.75/4
A small retirement home on the edge of Vienna where the city's oldest residents live. Patients over the age of 100 begin to die under mysterious circu...
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Ene mene muh – und tot bist du
2011
Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht
6/4
The pre-Christmas season is anything but contemplative for Lina, model and advertising jingle singer, and her best friend Nettie, who runs an event an...
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Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht
1998
Debt of Love
8/1
Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and s...
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Debt of Love
2018
Carneval - Der Clown bringt den Tod
3.444/9
A tricky out-of-area mission for Peter Lohmeyer alias Chief Inspector Jan Fabel in his fourth case: in the hustle and bustle of Cologne Carnival, of a...
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Carneval - Der Clown bringt den Tod
1989
Coming Closer
5.2/5
A full-blooded, interesting life has long eluded the house where a mother, father, son and daughter live. Trivial household matters, conversation at d...
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Coming Closer
2020
The Courier
7.031/1405
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Courier
2012
The Fourth State
5.955/56
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.
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The Fourth State
2008
Paper Soldier
5.6/19
In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
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Paper Soldier
1987
Roots
6.4/14
In the hot summer of 1917, the nineteen-year-old peasant Georgy Zakareishvili left his village in search of work and, settling on a French ship, soon...
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Roots
1987
The Step
6.8/13
Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment. He wants to be independent and find his place in the world. But no basic c...
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The Step
2020
Das Gesetz sind wir
5/6
Maja Witt and Klaus Burck have been a well-rehearsed team for years, ensuring law and order as police officers in Bremen. At least that's what they tr...
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Das Gesetz sind wir
2019
Strandgut - Der Usedom-Krimi
6.3/3
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Strandgut - Der Usedom-Krimi
2021
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
6.937/2789
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2020
Nachtschatten - Der Usedom-Krimi
5.3/6
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Nachtschatten - Der Usedom-Krimi
2020
Schmerzgrenze - Der Usedom-Krimi
6.6/5
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Schmerzgrenze - Der Usedom-Krimi
2020
Vom Geben und Nehmen - Der Usedom-Krimi
6.2/5
After her divorce from local politician Victor Braydon, Simone Eggebrecht finds stability in her work with the disabled and in her friendship with Wie...
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Vom Geben und Nehmen - Der Usedom-Krimi
1999
In Heaven
9/1
I Heaven's plot revolves around three friends with personal ambitions who must face the less pleasant aspects of reality. The story is told from the p...
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In Heaven
2021
House Arrest
6.2/8
David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investiga...
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House Arrest
2018
Percht
0/0
It's Christmas season in a small town somewhere in the Austrian countryside. Following tradition, the young local men parade in daemon-like masks to c...
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Percht
2024
Conclave
7.189/3600
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in...
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Conclave
2005
Georgisches Liebeslied
8/1
A young German music agent searches for talented young musicians in Georgia, where she begins an affair with her translator in Tbilisi. Back in German...
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Georgisches Liebeslied
1991
Oh, How Sweet is This Tender Sadness of Separation
0/0
Based on the works of Jean Anouilh. Eurydice and Orpheus meet on the platform of a railway station along with other heroes of the film. Among them is...
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Oh, How Sweet is This Tender Sadness of Separation
2025
A Working Man
6.686/2078
Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is l...
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A Working Man
1985
In a Small Town
10/1
The first secretary of the city party committee's house was filled with his colleagues: the head of the construction department, the deputy manager of...
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In a Small Town
The Price of Peace
0/0
Set against the backdrop of the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, in the aftermath of Nazi Germany’s defeat, President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister...
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The Price of Peace
2003
Postalioni
10/1
Live writing is the plot and artistic principle of cinematic improvisation by Nana Djordjadze and Irakli Kvirikadze.
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Postalioni
2026
Rosamunde Pilcher: Wo Liebe aufhört und wo sie beginnt
0/0
Kate loves working at the small café she runs with her friend Polly. Her big dream is to open her own literary café. But out of love for her husband,...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Wo Liebe aufhört und wo sie beginnt
2026
Behind the Door
0/0
A transgender woman reunites with her long lost twin brother
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Behind the Door
2012
Frühlings Erwachen
0/0
A young man is walking back home when a construction worker addresses him. He needs his help to take the measurements of the floor. Cooperatively, the...
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Frühlings Erwachen
2017
I Watch Her Sleep
0/0
Based on Philippe Garbit's short story “Je la regarde dormir,” a woman is accused of a cruel crime by a man who claims to be her friend. After many sl...
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