
Known for
Directing
Born
January 25, 1894
Birthplace
Tiflis, Russian Empire
Died
October 31, 1974 (aged 80)
Soviet, Georgian film actor, theater, film, animation director, animator, screenwriter, sculptor, teacher; People's Artist of the USSR (1948). Winner of five Stalin Prizes (1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1950). In 1909 he graduated from the Tiflis vocational school. In 1912 he graduated from the Tiflis School of Painting and Sculpture (now the Tbilisi Academy of Arts), a student of Yakov Nikoladze. Since 1915 he worked in the theaters of Tiflis, Kutaisi and Batumi as an actor, director and artist. In 1917, under the guidance of the historian Ekvtime Takaishvili, together with the futurist poet Ilya Zdanevich, the artists Lado Gudiashvili and Dimitri Shevardnadze, he was on an expedition to the sout...
2023
1974
Director
1973
Director, Writer
1972
Director, Writer
1971
Director, Writer
1970
Director, Writer
1969
Director, Writer
1965
Director, Writer
1963
Director, Co-Writer
1960
Writer, Director
1957
Director, Writer
1953
Director
1951
Screenplay, Director
1950
Director, Writer
1949
Producer
1949
Creative Producer
1948
Production Director
1946
Director, Screenplay
1944
Producer
1944
Creative Director
1943
Creative Producer
1942
Director
1942
Consulting Producer
1940
as (archive footage)
1938
Director, Writer