Revaz Chkheidze

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Revaz Chkheidze
Georgian SSR (now Georgia)
Died3 May 2015(2015-05-03) (aged 88)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Alma materShota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University
OccupationFilm director
Years active1953–2008
AwardsPeople's Artist of the USSR

Revaz "Rezo" Chkheidze (Georgian: რევაზ "რეზო" ჩხეიძე; 8 December 1926 – 3 May 2015) was a Georgian film director,[1] People's Artist of the USSR, best known for his Soviet-era drama films, including his 1964 World War II-themed Father of a Soldier.

Biography

Born in

VGIK in Moscow from 1949 to 1953.[2] Chkheidze directed twelve films and a TV miniseries between 1953 and 2008. He rose to fame with Magdana's Donkey, co-directed with Tengiz Abuladze, which won the Best Fiction Short award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.[3] His 1964 film Father of a Soldier was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.[4] The Saplings of 1972 won a diploma at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.[5]

During the Soviet era, Chkheidze was a

Kartuli Pilmi studio in 1973, a position he held, intermittently, into the 1990s.[6]

Among Chkheidze's awards and accolades were the title of

People’s Artist of the Soviet Union (1980), All-Union Film Festival Prize (1973, 1981), Lenin Prize (1986),[2] Georgia's Order of Honor (1996), and Honorary Citizenship of Tbilisi (2001).[8] A star in his honor was opened by Georgia's Ministry of Culture in front of the Rustaveli Cinema in Tbilisi in 2013.[9]

Revaz Chkheidze died on 3 May 2015. He was buried on 7 May at the Didube Pantheon in Tbilisi.[10]

Chkheidze's daughter Tamar (b. 1960) is a historian and former Soviet-era dissident who was active in Georgia's politics in the 1980s and early 1990s.[11]

Selected filmography

Filmography

As director
  • Boris Paichadze (1953)
  • In Our Courtyard (1956)
  • Maia Tskneteli (1959)
  • Treasure (1961)
  • Zgvis biliki (1962)
  • Father of a Soldier (1964)
  • Look at These Young People! (1969)
  • The Saplings (1972)
  • Earth, This Is Your Son (1980)
  • Tskhovreba Don Kikhotisa da Sancho Pansasi (1988) (TV Mini-Series)
  • Matskhovris Saplavze Antebuli Santeli (2008)
As writer
  • Qeratmiani qalishvili (1968) (TV Short)
  • Earth, This Is Your Son (1980)
  • Tskhovreba Don Kikhotisa da Sancho Pansasi (1988) (TV Mini-Series)
  • Matskhovris Saplavze Antebuli Santeli (2008)

References

  1. ^ კინორეჟისორი რეზო ჩხეიძე გარდაიცვალა (in Georgian)
  2. ^
    ISBN 1857432177
    .
  3. ^ "Awards 1956 : All Awards". Cannes. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  4. ^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  5. ^ "8th Moscow International Film Festival (1973)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0810862685
    .
  7. ^ "Georgian film director Rezo Chkheidze dies at age 88". Democracy & Freedom Watch. 4 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  8. ^ "Revaz Chkheidze". Biographical Dictionary of Georgia. National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  9. ^ "Rezo Chkheidze, creator of prominent Georgian film on WWII dies". Agenda.ge. 4 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  10. ^ "Rezo Chkheidze will be buried in Didube Pantheon today". Rustavi 2. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  11. ISBN 0582209994
    .

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