Mamuka Kikaleishvili Explained

Mamuka Kikaleishvili
Birth Name:Mamuka Andreyevich Kikaleishvili
Birth Date:10 August 1960
Birth Place:Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Moscow, Russia
Yearsactive:1981-2000
Spouse:Tatyana[1]

Mamuka Kikaleishvili (Georgian: მამუკა კიკალეიშვილი, Russian: Мамука́ Андре́евич Кикалейшви́ли; 10 August 1960 – 3 May 2000 [2] was a Georgian actor and film director.[3]

Biography

Born in Tbilisi in 1960, he graduated from Tbilisi Theatre Institute (1981) and worked for Marjanishvili National Academic Drama Theatre until 1984. In 1984, he was employed by the Georgia Film studio. Throughout his career, Mamuka Kikaleishvili performed in leading and secondary roles in a number of films produced in USSR, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. At the 1988 international festival in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, he won a prize for the best comedy actor. In 1992, he made his debut as a director and co-directed Fallen Angel (Georgia) with Levon Uzunian.

Later in his life, he worked for the Georgian Embassy in Moscow where he died in 2000.[4]

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. http://viperson.ru/articles/kak-oni-umerli-mamuka-kikaleyshvili Как они умерли
  2. Кинословарь. Т.2, СПб., 2001. — С.44.)
  3. http://viktor-andrienko.com/work/cinema/makaroni Виктор Андриенко. Безумные Макароны или…
  4. "მამუკა კიკალეიშვილი" (in Georgian). Cinema of Georgia Database. Accessed on August 30, 2007.