Avtandil Ivanovich Makharadze ( ka, ავთანდილ მახარაძე; born 16 July 1943) is a
Georgian
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actor
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.
He was born in
Batumi
Batumi (; ka, ბათუმი ) is the second largest city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest. It is situated in a subtropical zone at the foot of th ...
. Active since the 1970s. Avtandil Makharadze started his acting career as a student at
Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University
Shota Rustaveli Theater and Georgia State Film University (TAFU) is one of the oldest universities in the Caucasus and Georgia. The Theater and Film University has dedicated solely to the visual and performing arts. The chief founder of the Unive ...
with performances in the acts of his fellow students. His role in the play ''The Merchant of Venice'', where he played Shylock caught the eyes of critics and the public. He worked at Shota Rustaveli Theatre until 1991 where he had played over 50 roles.
He had great success in the theater of
МHАТ (Moscow Art Theatre), where in 1984, he played the main role in the play ''Collapse'' (
Jaqo's Dispossessed). The same role was previously played in a television series under the same title on Georgian Television, which was one of the most controversial TV Plays of Soviet Georgia.
In 1984 Avtandil Makharadze played two main parts in the famous film by
Tengiz Abuladze
Tengiz Abuladze ( ka, თენგიზ აბულაძე; 31 January 1924 – 6 March 1994) was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR. He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors.
...
''
Repentance
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'' (those of Varlam and Abel Aravidze). In 1987 at the
Cannes Film Festival
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''Repentance'' won the Grand Prize of the Jury, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the
FIPRESCI Award
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. The same year, at the
Chicago Film Festival
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Avtandil Makharadze received Silver Hugo Award for the best male performance. He won the first ever
Nika Award
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at the
Moscow International Film Festival
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in 1987 as well.
In 1989 he starred alongside
Isabelle Huppert
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,
Bernard Blier
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He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the time.
Life and career
His rotund features an ...
,
Erland Josephson
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Life and career
J ...
,
Richard Berry and
Miki Manojlovic
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in
Aleksandar Petrović's last film ''
Migrations''.
In 1991, Avtandil Makharadze played the main role in the film of Georgian director
Mikheil Kalatozishvili ''
The Beloved''. The Film was nominated for
Golden Bear
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The winn ...
at the
Berlin International Film Festival
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.
In 1993 he received Golden Eagle at The
Tbilisi International Film Festival
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for the best male performance in
Vagif Mustafayev
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Biography
In 1982, he was accepted on two-year higher courses for script ...
film ''Out of''.
In 2004 Avtandil Makharadze starred in Vagif Mustafayev's film ''
National Bomb
''National Bomb'' ( az, Milli bomba) is a 2004 Azerbaijani-Russian comedy film directed by Vagif Mustafayev. It was entered into the 26th Moscow International Film Festival.
Cast
* Yashar Nuri
* Nuriya Akhmedova
* Saida Kulieva
* Avtandil Ma ...
'' which was nominated for Golden St. George at the
Moscow International Film Festival
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. Avtandil Makharadze won the best male performance award at the
Smolensk Film Festival for that part.
Makharadze played
Joseph Stalin
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in the 2005
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