FrameThrower · Actors · Merab Ninidze
Merab Ninidze
3 films · 456 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2017–2025
Born 3 November 1965 · Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR
Merab Ninidze 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.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 456 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Merab takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 58% low key — the look of the work Merab takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 456 frames from Merab Ninidze's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.