Otar Koberidze

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Otar Koberidze ( Georgian ოთარ კობერიძე ; Russian Отар Коберидзе ; born December 17, 1924 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , USSR ; † March 9, 2015 ibid., Georgia ) was a Soviet or Georgian actor , director and screenwriter .

Life and accomplishments

Koberidze, whose full name was "Otar Leontewitsch Koberidze" (Отар Леонтьевич Коберидзе) in Russian, was a non-commissioned officer in the Great Patriotic War and commanded an air defense unit. From 1947 to 1949 he studied at the Law Faculty of Tbilisi, but attended the drama school at the Rustaveli Theater until 1948 and then worked at the Drama Theater in Sukhumi from 1950 to 1956 . Here he played in classics such as Pushkin's Don Juan adaptation The Stone Guest and Gogol's The Marriage . In 1960 Koberidze was engaged by the Tbilisi Marjanishvili Theater and gave there a. a. the male title role in Romeo and Juliet .

Koberidze had his first film appearance in 1941 in a short film by Nikolos Schengelaia , but his real film career did not begin until 1956 when he was engaged by the Grusiafilm studio and the title role in the successful historical drama Baschi-Achuk based on a story by Akaki Tsereteli . Koberidse's best-known films include Encounters in Space , the fairy tale adaptation of Aladdin's magic lamp , the Defa-Western Track of the Falcon and the Soviet-Italian production The Red Tent . The Georgian was still active as an actor at the age of 75 , he appeared in over fifty films for the Georgia Film studio , and his filmography also includes ten directing works for Grusiafilm from 1963.

In 1967 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Georgian SSR , after having been named Honored Artist of the Abkhazian ASSR in 1954 and Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1958 . Koberidze was also the recipient of the medal “For Merit in Combat” (1945), the Order of the Great Patriotic War, Second Class (1985) and the Georgian Memed Abashidze Prize (2002).

Private

Otar Koberidse was married to the actress Lija Eliawa (1934–1998), who died in 1998 , with whom he had a cameo in Eldar Schengelaia's Blue Mountains or An Unlikely Story (1983). Koberidze died at the age of 90 on March 9, 2015 and was buried three days later.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1956: Bashi-Achuk
  • 1958: the fate of a woman
  • 1958: I'm telling the truth
  • 1959: The Mameluck
  • 1960: sponge finder
  • 1962: 713 requests permission to land
  • 1963: Encounter in space (also direction and screenplay)
  • 1964: They moved east
  • 1965: Sons of the Coast
  • 1966: Today new attractions / happiness in the ring
  • 1967: Aladdin's magic lamp
  • 1967: The Commissioner
  • 1968: Trail of the Falcon
  • 1969: The red tent
  • 1970: Mission to Kabul
  • 1971: Young man
  • 1972: The battle in the valley of the white tulips
  • 1975: Escape at dawn
  • 1978: Decision at the Shipka Pass
  • 1979: shore
  • 1979: life is wonderful / life is beautiful
  • 1981: wanted
  • 1983: Blue Mountains or An Unlikely Story
  • 1985: Battle of Moscow
  • 1987: I believe in love

literature

  • Hans-Michael Bock: Lexicon film actors international . Henschel-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-89487-199-7 , page 457

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography of Otar Koberidses on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on January 8, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Obituary for Koberidse (English), accessed on November 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c Press release on Koberidses death (English), accessed on November 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ Dinara Maglakelidse: National Identities in West German and Georgian Authors' Films between the 1960s and 1980s (p. 22).
  5. ↑ Otar Koberidse in the Georgian Cinema Database , accessed on November 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Profile of Lija Eliawa in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on November 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Koberidze, Otar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES კობერიძე, ოთარ (Georgian); Коберидзе, Отар (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet or Georgian actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2015
Place of death Tbilisi