Mikheil Chiaureli

Mikheil Chiaureli, born in Tbilisi in 1894, learned a manual trade, took to the stage as an amateur and was an actor and set designer at the Tbilisi theatre before coming to cinema in his thirties; he made twenty-five films between 1928 and 1974. Under Stalin he became the regime's principal official filmmaker and five times received the prize that bore Stalin's name. Sidelined after 1953 and sent to run a studio in the Urals, he returned to Georgia and died there in 1974. He had married the actress Veriko Anjaparidze; their daughter Sofiko was one of the country's great performers.

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• CinemaხაბარდაMikheil Chiaureli · 1931Cinema