Mameluke (1958) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1958 · 97 mins · Georgian

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Directed by

Davit Rondeli

Starring

Guram Sagaradze, Lia Eliava, Edisher Magalashvili, Dudukhana Tserodze, Veriko Anjaparidze, Zurab Laperadze

In Arabic, “mameluke” means white slave, a term for people from Georgia and the Caucasus. Two friends are seized in 18th‑century Georgia and sold—one to Egypt, the other to Venice. Years later they meet near the pyramids as French and Egyptian forces clash. Mameluke wounds a French officer, who falls from his horse and cries “Vai, nana!” in Georgian, recognizing a friend.