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Don't Grieve (Russian: Не горюй!; Georgian: არ იდარდო!) is a 1969 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Georgiy Daneliya.^[1] Film is loosely based on the novel "My uncle Benjamen" by French writer Claude Tillier.

In the end of the 19th century, a young doctor, Benjamen Glonti, returns to a small village in his native Georgia after finishing his medical studies in St. Petersburg. A series of comic events unfold around him.

• Sergo Zakariadze as Doctor Levan Tsintsadze
• Vakhtang Kikabidze as Doctor Benjamen Glonti
• Sofiko Chiaureli as Sofico, Benjamen's sister
• Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Mery Tsintsadze, Levan's daughter
• Lia Gudadze as Margo, Vano's wife
• Veriko Anjaparidze as Kalandadze's mother
• Sesilia Takaishvili as Aunt Domna
• Ariadna Shengelaia as Princess Vahvari
• Gogi Kavtaradze as Luka, Sofico's husband
• Ipolite Khvichia as Sandro, organ-grinder
• Karlo Sakandelidze as Dodo, lawyer
• Dodo Abashidze as Prince Vahvari
• Zurab Kapianidze as His servant

In the film, Kikabidze performs Shen Khar Venakhi, a medieval Georgian hymn.

• Don't Grieve at IMDb