Tengiz Abuladze

Infobox Actor
name = Tengiz Abuladze

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caption =
birthname = Tengiz Yevgeniyevich Abuladze
birthdate = birth date|1924|01|31
location = Kutaisi, USSR
deathdate = death date and age|1994|03|06|1924|01|31
deathplace = Tbilisi, Georgia

Tengiz Yevgeniyevich Abuladze ( _ka. თენგიზ აბულაძე; _ru. Тенгиз Евгеньевич Абуладзе; January 31, 1924 in Kutaisi — March 6, 1994 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian film director.

Abuladze studied theatre direction (1943-1946) at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography) in Moscow. He graduated VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziafilm (Georgia Film Studios) as a director. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1980.

His first film, "Magdana's Donkey" (1955), which he directed with Rezo Chkheidze won the "Best Fiction Short" award at the 1956 Cannes International Film Festival. He is most famous for his film trilogy: "The Plea" ("The Supplication") (1968), "The Tree of Desire" (1976), and "Repentance" (1984, released 1987), which won him the Lenin Prize (1988) and the first Nika Award for Best Picture. "Repentance" won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1987.

References

* [http://www.georgianbiography.com/alphabetindex.html# Abuladze, Tengiz] , The Dictionary of Georgian National Biography. Retrieved January 30, 2007.