Veriko (Vera) Ivlianovna Anjaparidze ( ka, ვერიკო ანჯაფარიძე, in

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– 1987 in

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) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actress.

Life and career

Andjaparidze studied at the Aidarov Drama Studio in Moscow in 1916–1917 and at the Aleksandre Djabadari studio in Tbilisi in 1918–1921. Since 1920, Veriko Anjaparidze was an actress at the Shota Rustaveli State Theater in Tbilisi, and since 1927 she moved to the

Marjanishvili Theatre Kote Marjanishvili State Academic Drama Theatre ( ka, კოტე მარჯანიშვილის სახელობის სახელმწიფო აკადემიური დრამატული თეატრი) i ...

, also in Tbilisi. Later, she became the art director of the theater. She was also teaching at the Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi Theater Institute.Верико Ивлиановна Анджапаридзе
/ref> Andjaparidze’s film debut was in Vladimir Barskii’s ''Horrors of the Past'' (1925). She then played supporting parts in Yuri Zheliabuzhskii’s ''Dina Dza-Dzu'' (1926) and Nikoloz Shengelaia’s Twenty-six Commissars (1932). In 1929, Andjaparidze starred in Mikheil Chiaureli’s morality tale about alcoholism ''Saba''. She soon achieved a unique status as one of the leading female actresses of Georgian cinema, who was honored under all Soviet political leaders, from Iosif Stalin to Mikhail Gorbachev. She also starred as Rusudan in Chiaureli’s epic ''Georgi Zaakadze'' (1942–1946), the kolkhoz director Nino in Nikoloz Sanishvili’s comedy ''Happy Encounter'' (1949), and the lead in Siko Dolidze’s popular rural drama ''Encounter with the Past'' (1966). Tengiz Abuladze cast Andjaparidze in a minor yet essential role in his anti-totalitarian testament ''Repentance'' (1984). Veriko Anjaparidze was awarded the

Stalin Prize Stalin Prize may refer to: * The State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1954, later known as the USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, ...

in 1943, 1946, and 1952. In 1950, she was awarded the title of the People's Artist of the USSR and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1979.

Personal life

She was the wife of the film director

Mikheil Chiaureli Mikheil Chiaureli ( ka, მიხეილ ჭიაურელი, russian: Михаил Эдишерович Чиаурели, 6 February 1894 – 31 October 1974) was a Soviet Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed ...

and the mother of the actress

Sofiko Chiaureli Sophia Chiaureli ( ka, სოფიკო ჭიაურელი; 21 May 1937 – 2 March 2008), professionally known as Sofiko Chiaureli, was a Soviet Georgian actress. Thought to be the muse of filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, she played a sig ...

. Anjaparidze is buried in

Mtatsminda Pantheon The Mtatsminda Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures ( ka, მთაწმინდის მწერალთა და საზოგადო მოღვაწეთა პანთეონი, ''mtats'mindis mts'eralta da sazogado mo ...

Selected filmography

*''

Saba Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea * Şaba (Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine * Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras * Saba (river), ...

'' (1929) as Maro *''

Giorgi Saakadze Giorgi Saakadze the Grand Mouravi ( ka, გიორგი სააკაძე) (c. 1570 – October 3, 1629) was a Georgian politician and military commander who played an important but contradictory role in the politics of the early 17th-ce ...

'' (1942) as Rusudan *'' Keto and Kote'' (1948) as princess *'' The Fall of Berlin'' (1950) as mother of killed German soldier Hans * ''

Don't Grieve ''Don't Grieve'' (russian: Не горюй!; ka, არ იდარდო!) is a 1969 Soviet comedy film directed by Georgiy Daneliya. Film is loosely based on the novel "My uncle Benjamen" by French writer Claude Tillier. Plot In the end of ...

'' (1969) as Kalantadze's mother * '' The Legend of Suram Fortress'' (1985) as old fortune teller *'' Repentance'' (1987) as wanderer

References

External links

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