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Filmmaker · Georgia

Giorgi Shengelaia

Died in 2020

Giorgi Shengelaia, born in Tbilisi in 1937, son of the filmmaker Nikoloz Shengelaia and the actress Nato Vachnadze, and younger brother of Eldar, graduated from the Moscow film school and began as an actor before moving behind the camera. He made about ten titles, from documentary to comedy, and won the Silver Bear for directing at Berlin in 1986. Elected to the Georgian parliament after independence, he died in Tbilisi in 2020.

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