Rezo Chkheidze

Rezo Chkheidze was born in Kutaisi in 1926 into a family of actors and graduated from the Moscow film school, where Tengiz Abuladze was a fellow student: their first joint film received in 1956 the prize for best fiction short film at the Cannes Film Festival. He then headed the Tbilisi studio, during the period when Georgian cinema was most recognised outside the Soviet Union, and trained several generations of filmmakers. He died in Tbilisi in 2015, aged eighty-eight.

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• CinemaFather of a Soldierჯარისკაცის მამაRezo Chkheidze · 1964Cinema