Ditto Tsintsadze

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Dito Tsintsadze with Anna F. , Austrian premiere of Invasion (2013)

Dimitri (Dito) Tsintsadze ( Georgian დიტო ცინცაძე ; German transcription Dito Zinzadze ; born March 2, 1957 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian screenwriter and film director. Today he lives and works in Berlin .

Life

From 1975 to 1981 he studied directing with Eldar Schengelaia and Otar Iosseliani at the Tbilisi Film School . Until 1989 he worked as an assistant director in the Kartuli film studios. In 1990 he made his first lengthy film Guests , then worked for the private film production company Schwidkaza. In 1993 he received for the film at the border , who paraphrased the civil war in Georgia, the Locarno Film Festival Silver Leopard at the film festival and the Black Sea countries in Tbilisi the Golden Eagle.

Between 1993 and 1996 Tsintsadze worked for an Italian film production company. In 1996 he received a Nipkow film grant for Berlin and then lived with his family in Georgia and Germany . His film Lost Killers (2000) processes these experiences in a story of five migrants who eke out their lives in Mannheim's red light district . He received the Silver Alexander at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the main prize at the Cottbus Film Festival . In 2003 he was awarded the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival , Spain and the Golden Prometheus at the Tbilisi International Film Festival for the film Gunshot , which depicts the loss of reality of a young man in love that leads to murder .

Since then he has lived entirely in Berlin. In 2005 Dito Tsinstadze wrote the screenplay for the film The Man from the Embassy , which he shot in Georgia again, together with the Georgian author and director Sasa Russadze . In The Man from the Embassy deals with the connection of a German embassy staff to locals. Leading actor Burghart Klaußner was awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for best male actor . Dito Tsintsadze and Sasa Russadze won the Silver Astor Award for Best Screenplay at the Mar del Plata Film Festival . The Association of Argentine Film Critics (ACCA) named The Man from the Embassy as the best film of the festival. In 2007, the television film Reverse was made in Georgia . In 2008, his feature film Murder in the Theater was selected as the official Georgian entry for the nomination for the best foreign language film at the 2009 Academy Awards.

In 2012 his film Invasion was released by Neue Visionen Filmverleih in German cinemas. In the same year Invasion won the Special Grand Prix of the Jury of the Montreal World Film Festival .

In 2015 Tsintsadze's film God of Happiness won the main prize at the Biberach Film Festival , the Golden Beaver.

Tsintsadze is married to the actress Marika Giorgobiani . He speaks Georgian, English, German and Russian.

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Dito Tsintsadze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Official shortlist of foreign language feature films with English titles (English; accessed October 22, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Tsintsadze, ditto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ცინცაძე, დიტო (Georgian); Zinzadze, Ditto (Georgian, transcribed); Tsintsadze, Dimitri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgian SSR