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Filmmaker · Georgia

Lana Gogoberidze

Lana Gogoberidze, born in Tbilisi in 1928, daughter of the filmmaker Nutsa Gogoberidze and of Levan Gogoberidze, a communist leader executed in 1937, was raised in an orphanage and then by her aunts. As film school was closed to her because of her parents, she took a degree in philology and wrote on Walt Whitman, before being admitted to it after Stalin's death; she graduated in 1959. In 1978 she made a work in which ordinary Soviet women speak about themselves, was a member of parliament, her country's representative to the Council of Europe, then ambassador to France. She lives in Tbilisi.

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