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Filmmaker · Georgia

Rezo Esadze

Died in 2020

Rezo Esadze, born on 18 February 1934 in the village of Shemokmedi, in Guria, graduated in 1956 from the faculty of physics and mathematics of Tbilisi University before entering the film school in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1964. He was at once a director, actor, screenwriter and painter, and exhibited in Tbilisi, Munich, Geneva and Tel Aviv. Honoured Artist of the Republic of Georgia in 1980, winner of the Shota Rustaveli Prize and Knight of the Order of Honour, he was still making films in 2016, the year of his last film, and died in Tbilisi on 18 April 2020.

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