Tengiz Abuladze

Tengiz Evgenis dze Abuladze
თენგიზ ევგენის ძე აბულაძე
Born(1924-01-31)31 January 1924
Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died6 March 1994(1994-03-06) (aged 70)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Resting placeDidube Pantheon, Tbilisi
Years active1956 – 1988
Notable work
TitlePeople's Artist of the USSR (1980)

Tengiz Evgenis dze Abuladze[a] (31 January 1924 – 6 March 1994) was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR.[1][2] He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors.[3]


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  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman / Littlefield. pp. 27–29. ISBN 978-1442268425.
  2. ^ Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy, Dina Iordanova (2019). The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. Bloomsbury. pp. 1935–1936. ISBN 978-1838718497.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "The man behind the USSR's most popular film a parable about tyranny. Director Tengiz Abuladze talks about 'Repentance,' a film shelved until glasnost, but now acclaimed in the USSR and France, and soon to be seen in the US". Christian Science Monitor. 7 August 1987.