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Tengiz Abuladze

Tengiz Abuladze

Actor, Director, Writer

Born January 31, 1924 in Kutaisi, Georgian SSR [now Republic of Georgia]

Died March 6, 1994

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Tengiz Abuladze (Georgian: თენგიზ აბულაძე; 31 January 1924 – 6 March 1994) was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR. He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors.

Abuladze studied theatre direction (1943–1946) at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography) in Moscow. He graduated from VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziya-film (Georgia Film Studios) as a director. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1980.

His first film, Magdana's Donkey (1956), which he directed with Rezo Chkheidze, won the "Best Fiction Short" award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. He is most famous for his film trilogy: The Plea (The Supplication) (1968), The Wishing Tree (1977), and Repentance (1984, released 1987), which won him the Lenin Prize (1988) and the first Nika Award for Best Picture. Repentance won the Special Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1987 he was a member of the jury at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.

Abuladze came to prominence in the Soviet Union under perestroika when his banned film Repentance, a blistering expose of the Stalinist terror, was released in 1986.

Repentance revolves around the death of an old tyrant, Varlam Aravidze, and the refusal of a woman, Ketevan Barateli, to leave his corpse in peace. She repeatedly disinters the corpse and at the trial disinters also the forbidden secrets of the past. Aravidze is universalized as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin, but most obviously as Stalin's fellow Georgian Lavrentiy Beria.

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10 wins and 2 nominations

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Filmography

Actor

2

Type

Year

Repentance. 40 years later Short Film2024Self

Cannes Film Festival Poster

Cannes Film Festival TV Series1952Self - Winner

Director

13

Type

Year

Khadzhi Murat TV Movie1989

Repentance Poster

Repentance Feature Film1984

The Wishing Tree Poster

The Wishing Tree Feature Film1976

Muzeumi gia tsis qvesh Documentary1972

A Necklace for My Beloved Poster

A Necklace for My Beloved Feature Film1971

Vedreba Feature Film1967

Svanur-Tushuri chanakhatebi Documentary1965

Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion Poster

Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion Feature Film1962

Someone Else's Children Poster

Someone Else's Children Feature Film1958

Dimitriy Arakishvili Documentary1955

Magdana's Donkey Poster

Magdana's Donkey Feature Film1955

Qartuli tsekvis sakhelmtsipo ansambli Feature Film1954

Chveni sasakhle Documentary1953

Writer

10

Type

Year

Khadzhi Murat TV Movie1989

Repentance Poster

Repentance Feature Film1984

The Wishing Tree Poster

The Wishing Tree Feature Film1976

A Necklace for My Beloved Poster

A Necklace for My Beloved Feature Film1971

Kto pridumal koleso? Poster

Kto pridumal koleso? Feature Film1967

Vedreba Feature Film1967

Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion Poster

Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion Feature Film1962

Someone Else's Children Poster

Someone Else's Children Feature Film1958

Dimitriy Arakishvili Documentary1955

Chveni sasakhle Documentary1953

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