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Veriko Anjaparidze

Georgian actress

Summary

Georgian actress

Field	Value
name	Veriko Anjaparidze
native_name_lang	ka
native_name	ვერიკო ანჯაფარიძე
image	[[File:Veriko Anjaparidze.jpg	200px]]
birth_date
birth_place	Kutaisi, Russian Empire
death_date
death_place	Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
other_names	Vera Anjaparidze
occupation	Actress

Veriko Ivlianes asuli Anjaparidze (30 January 1987) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actress.

Life and career

Andjaparidze was born in Kutaisi and 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, also in Tbilisi. Later, she became the art director of the theater. She was also teaching at the Rustaveli Theatre.

Andjaparidze’s film debut was in Vladimir Barskii’s Horrors of the Past (1925). She then played supporting parts in Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky’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 ’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).

Recognition and honors

Two Stalin Prizes first degree (1943, 1946)
Stalin Prize second degree (1952)
People's Artist of the USSR (1950)
Hero of Socialist Labour (1979)

Personal life

She was the wife of the film director Mikheil Chiaureli and the mother of the actress Sofiko Chiaureli. Anjaparidze died in Tbilisi and is buried in Mtatsminda Pantheon.

Selected filmography

Saba (1929) as Maro
Giorgi Saakadze (1942) as Rusudan
Keto and Kote (1948) as princess
The Fall of Berlin (1950) as mother of killed German soldier Hans
Don't Grieve (1969) as Kalantadze's mother
The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985) as old fortune teller
Repentance (1987) as wanderer

Notes

References

Peter Rollberg. (2016). "Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema". Rowman & Littlefield.
(1969). "Veriko Anjaparidze". [[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]].
"Верико Ивлиановна Анджапаридзе".

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