Giuli Chokhonelidze
Giuli Chokhonelidze | |
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გიული ჭოხონელიძე | |
Chokhonelidze as Pyotr Bagration | |
| Born | 10 April 1929 Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 24 December 2008 (aged 79) Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Occupations | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1953–2001 |
Giuli Iasonis dze Chokhonelidze (Georgian: გიული ჭოხონელიძე; 10 April 1929 – 24 December 2008) was a Georgian stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter. He is best known for playing General Pyotr Bagration in Sergei Bondarchuk's film War and Peace, and was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1983.[1]
Early life and education
Chokhonelidze was born on 10 April 1929 in Tbilisi.[1] He graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute in Tbilisi in 1951 and then spent a year at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov.[1]
Career
From 1953 to 1958 Chokhonelidze was an actor at the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi, and from 1958 he worked in cinema.[1] One of his early notable screen roles was Ibrahim in Fatima (1958).[2]
His best-known role was General Pyotr Bagration in Sergei Bondarchuk's film epic War and Peace (1965–1967), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[2] He returned to the same historical figure in 1985 as the director, screenwriter and star of the film Bagrationi.[1]
As a director, Chokhonelidze also made Kochora (1967), Spring Evening (1972), The Land of the Ancestors (1979), Spiral (1990) and Antimoz Iverieli (2001).[1]
Awards and honours
- Honoured Artist of the Georgian SSR (1961)
- People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1983)
- Order of Honour (1999)
Death
Chokhonelidze died in Tbilisi on 24 December 2008.[1]
References
Further reading
- Book of Honour. Vol. 4. Tbilisi. 2002. p. 131 (in Georgian).