Nutsa (Nino) Gogoberidze (also spelled Ghoghoberidze; born 1903 – died 1966) was a pioneering

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. She was an associate of

Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn, 2=Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenw ...

and

Alexander Dovzhenko Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko or Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko ( uk, Олександр Петрович Довженко, ''Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko''; russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Довже́нко, ''Aleksandr Petro ...

. Her 1934 film ''Uzhmuri'' was the first

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in the

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directed by a woman.

Life

Nino was born in Kakhi,

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in 1903. She obtained a degree from the philosophy department of the

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. She married Levan Ghoghoberidze, a Communist party activist. In the 1930s, because of his activities, she was repressed. Following his execution in 1937, she was exiled for ten years. Upon her return, she abandoned the film industry and joined the Linguistics Institute in Tbilisi. Her daughter

Lana Gogoberidze Lana Gogoberidze ( ka, ლანა ღოღობერიძე) (born October 13, 1928, Tbilisi) is a Georgian film director and politician. Educated at Tbilisi State University and Moscow State University of Cinematography, Gogoberidze heade ...

and granddaughter Salome Aleksi-Meskhishvili are also film directors. Gogoberidze died in

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in 1966.

Career

Gogoberidze's first film, ''Mati Samepo'' (''Their Kingdom'') was made with Mikhail Kalatozov. In 1930, Gogoberidze released ''Buba'' (''A Story of Mountainous Racha''), a dramatised propaganda film. This was almost immediately shelved, and was not screened for decades. The reel remained with the

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, the Soviet (now Russian) film archive, and was handed over to the Georgians in 2016.

Filmography

* ''Mati Samepo'' (''Their Kingdom'', 1928) (with

Mikhail Kalatozov Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov ( ka, მიხეილ კალატოზიშვილი, russian: Михаил Константинович Калатозов; 28 December 1903 – 26 March 1973), born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a So ...

) * ''Buba'' (1930, with

David Kakabadze Davit' Kakabadze ( ka, დავით კაკაბაძე) (August 20, 1889 – May 10, 1952) was a leading Georgian avant-garde painter, graphic artist and scenic designer. A multi-talent, he was also an art scholar and innovator in the fie ...

) * ''Uzhmuri'' (1934)

References

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