Ivane Perestiani

Ivane Perestiani, born in Taganrog in 1870 into a family of Greek origin, went on stage in 1886 and was for twenty years an itinerant theatre actor across the Russian Empire, entered cinema in 1916 as an actor and then as a director, and went to Tbilisi in 1920 to take over the artistic direction of the nascent Georgian studio. There in 1921 he made the first historical and revolutionary film of Soviet Georgia and trained the country's first generation of filmmakers. He then worked in Ukraine and at the Armenian studio, returned to Tbilisi in 1939, and died in Moscow on 14 May 1959.

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• CinemaLittle Red Devilsწითელი ეშმაკუნებიIvane Perestiani · 1923Cinema