Merab Ninidze

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Merab Ninidze ( Georgian მერაბ ნინიძე; born November 3, 1965 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian actor. He moved to Austria in 1994 and now lives and works in Vienna and Berlin .

Life

Merab Ninidze comes from a theater family. He got his first stage role in 1979 in a performance by Richard III. From 1982 to 1984 he studied acting at the Academy for Performing Arts and Film in Tbilisi. In 1984 he received his first film role in Reue , directed by Tengis Abuladze . Until 1991 he belonged to the ensemble of the State Academic Theater Schota Rustaveli in Tbilisi, made six films in the state film studios Grusia-Film (Georgian Kartuli Filmi ).

In 1993, Ninidse took on a first German-language role in the Austrian film Halbe Welt , directed by Florian Flicker. He has lived in Vienna since 1994. He became famous in the Oscar -prämierten film Nowhere in Africa by Caroline Link . In it he played the main role of Walter Redlich , a Jewish emigrant who lived and survived with his family in Kenya during the Second World War . However, he was dubbed in this role by Herbert Knaup . Since 2002, Ninidse has regularly taken on roles in German television productions.

Filmography

movie theater

Television (selection)

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SURNAME Ninidze, Merab
ALTERNATIVE NAMES მერაბ ნინიძე (Georgian name); Ninidze, Merab
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgian SSR