Tengiz abuladze biography
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- Tengiz Evgenis dze Abuladze was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR.
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Tengiz Abuladze
Georgian film director
Tengiz Evgenis dze Abuladze[a] (31 January 1924 – 6 March 1994) was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR.[1][2] He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors.[3]
Biography
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 th
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Tengiz Abuladze
'Tengiz Abuladze' studied theatrical direction af the Chota Rustaveli Theatre Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, and film- making at the VGIK Cinematography Institute, graduating in 1953, when he joined Georgia Film Studios as a director. He made documentaries before making his feature debut in 1958. His best-known work in the West is the trilogy Vedreba (1967), The Wishing Tree (1976) and 0093754, the latter being one of the first films to be released in the post-glasnost era, and one of the most controversial, thanks to its allegorical portrait of a small town under Stalinist terror (Stalin, like Abuladze, hailing originally from Georgia). It was a huge success in the Soviet Union, and achieved reasonable distribution abroad, almost unheard of for a Georgian film.
'Tengiz Abuladze' studied theatrical direction af the Chota Rustaveli Theatre Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, and film- making at the VGIK Cinematography Institute, graduating in 1953, when he joined Georgia Film Studios as a director. He made documentaries before making his featu
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Repentance: the extraordinary inside story of Tengiz Abuladze’s swansong masterpiece
Tengiz Abuladze on the set of Repentance. Image: Margarita Shengelia
31 January 2024 marked the centenary of Tengiz Abuladze: one of the most heralded figures in Soviet cinema history and a figurehead for postwar Georgian film. Abuladze, who died in 1994 at the age of 70, was one of a cohort of arthouse directors – Otar Iosseliani, Eldar Shengelaia – whose alternately lyrical, subversive, and confessional works came to define Georgian cinema. Abuladze’s crowning achievement was the so-called “trilogy of truth”: three films about the price of personal conviction, inspired by the distant and recent history of his homeland. In the words of critic Carmen Gray, “Abuladze’s heroes and heroines are the kind of renegades that prefer the high price of death to hypocrisy, as irreconcilable conflicts between freedom and duty, the past and the future, weigh upon them.” After The Plea (1967) and The Wishing Tree (1976) came Repentance (1984) – for many the most important film in the h
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