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Filmmaker · Georgia

Tengiz Abuladze

Died in 1994

Tengiz Abuladze, born in Kutaisi on 31 January 1924, left a technical railway school before studying directing at the Tbilisi theatre institute from 1943 to 1946, under Georgy Tovstonogov and Dimitri Alexidze, then film direction at the Moscow film school, in the workshop of Sergei Yutkevich, from which he graduated in 1953. That same year he joined the Georgian studio, where he remained all his life. Named People's Artist of Georgia in 1966 and of the Union in 1980, he died in Tbilisi on 6 March 1994 and is buried in the Didube Pantheon.

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