Biography
Merab Ninidze is a Georgian actor. He is best known for the roles of Oleg Penkovsky in The Courier and Vadim Kalyagin in McMafia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Working Man
2025
as Yuri
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...

April
2025
as Chief Physician
Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after a newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, dete...

In the Name of Blood
2025
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...

Conclave
2024
as Sabbadin
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 ...

House Arrest
2021
as David
David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investiga...

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021
as Andrej Vaseliev
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

Vom Geben und Nehmen - Der Usedom-Krimi
2020
as Lucjan Gadocha
After her divorce from local politician Victor Braydon, Simone Eggebrecht finds stability in her work with the disabled and in her friendship with Wie...

Schmerzgrenze - Der Usedom-Krimi
2020
as Lucjan Gadocha

Nachtschatten - Der Usedom-Krimi
2020
as Lucjan Gadocha

Das Gesetz sind wir
2020
as Djamal Issa
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...

The Courier
2020
as Oleg Penkovsky
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Russian Whispers
2019
as Viktor
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...

Strandgut - Der Usedom-Krimi
2019
as Lucjan Gadocha

Mutterliebe - Der Usedom-Krimi
2019
as Lucjan Gadocha

Percht
2018
as Truck Driver‘s Voice
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...

Carneval - Der Clown bringt den Tod
2018
as Witrenko
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...

Jupiter's Moon
2017
as Gabor Stern
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...

My Happy Family
2017
as Soso
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 ...

Hostages
2017
as Levan
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...

Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free
2016
as Friedrich Carl Andreas
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...

The Puppet Syndrome
2015
as Boris
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...

Bridge of Spies
2015
as Soviet Main Interrogator
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, ...

Thank You for Bombing
2015
Thank you for Bombing accompanies three correspondents to their working place in conflict areas and gives an insight into their daily routine aside fr...

Under Electric Clouds
2015
as Nikolai
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, ...

B/W
2015
as Нурик
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...

After Love
2015
as The Painter
A cinematic menage-a-trois between a photographer, a rentboy and a transsexual call girl.

Bis zum Ende der Welt
2014
as Zano
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 ...

Unter Feinden
2013
as Idris Maher
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...

Invasion
2013
as Konstantin
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...

Blutadler
2012
as Wassyl Witrenko
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...

Love with an Accent
2012
From odd situations to complicated emotions, various obstacles test a group of people in their pursuits of true love in this collection of stories.

Das Geheimnis in Siebenbürgen
2012
as Nikolai Ilinescu
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...

The Fourth State
2012
A journalist gets caught up in a terrorist plot in Moscow while investigating the Russian secret service.

Russisch Roulette
2012
as Alexej Romanowitsch
When her young son Nikolai disappears without a trace in the subway, German journalist Katharina Wagner suddenly realizes that she has powerful enemie...

Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht
2011
as Alex
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...

Winter's Daughter
2011
as Alexei
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...

4 Days in May
2011
as Major
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...

From Tokyo
2011
as Rescuer
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...

My Best Enemy
2011
as Moritz Haiden
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 ...

The Cameramurderer
2010
as Thomas
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...

Paper Soldier
2008
as Doctor Daniil Pokrovsky
In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.

The Rainbowmaker
2008
as Datho
Datho (Merab Ninidze) has been innocent in prison for many years. When he comes home nobody wants him. His angelic wife Elene (Anna Antonowicz) has fu...

Mediator
2008
as Hitman
The detective will have to figure out the mysterious death of an English secret agent who came to Tbilisi to sell important secret information.

Not All Were Murderers
2006
as Russischer Offizier
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 ...
Liebes Leid und Lust
2006
as André Schott

Conny und die verschwundene Ehefrau
2005
as Thomas Landsberg
Connie needs money. When a mysterious watch manufacturer asks her to investigate possible insurance fraud, the problem seems to be solved for the time...

Schön, dass es Dich gibt
2005
as Peters Freund Gérard
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...

Georgisches Liebeslied
2005
Sterne leuchten auch am Tag
2004
as Ruben Costa
Cattolica
2004
as Martin
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...

August der Glückliche
2002
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...

Icarus
2002
as Milan
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...
Verlorenes Land
2002
as Jean-Pierre

Nowhere in Africa
2001
as Walter Redlich
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...

Ene mene muh – und tot bist du
2001
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...

Bride of the Wind
2001
as russischer Soldat
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.
England!
2000
as Pavel
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 ...

In Heaven
1999
as Levi
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...

Luna Papa
1999
as Alik
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...

Suzie Washington
1998
as Resa Madani
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...

Debt of Love
1998
as Unknown Man
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...

Yugofilm
1997
as Sascha
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...

Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen
1994
as Nikolai
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...

Crossroad
1991
Georgian Movie Directed By Levan Kitia In 1991.

ო, რა ტკბილია განშორების ეს ნაზი სევდა
1991
as orpheos
Based on the works of Jean Anouilh. The film, with a modern interpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, deals with the eternal themes of life ...

Coming Closer
1989
A full-blooded, interesting life has long eluded the house where a mother, father, son and daughter live. Trivial household matters, conversation at d...

Roots
1987
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 ...

Temo
1987
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...

Repentance
1987
as Tornike
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 ...

The Step
1987
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...

Full Circle
1986
as Irakliy
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 ...

ერთ პატარა ქალაქში
1985
georgian film