Sergo Zakariadze Explained

Sergo Zakariadze
Birth Date:1 July 1909
Birth Place:Baku, Russian Empire
Death Place:Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:Actor, theater pedagogue
Yearsactive:1926–1971

Sergo Zakariadze (Georgian: სერგო ზაქარიაძე in Georgian pronounced as /seɾɡo zakʰaɾiad͡ze/;  - 12 April 1971) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1958).[1]

Zakariadze was born in Baku in 1909. He won several prizes, among them Best Actor honors at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival for his portrayal of an old peasant who joined the Red Army in order to find his son in the movie Father of a Soldier (Djariskatsis mama).[2] His final role was in Bondarchuk's Waterloo as Prussian Marschall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, just a few months before his death. He died in Tbilisi.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1933Ukanaskneli djvarosnebi Torgvai
1936Dariko Simona
1940Samshoblo Sardioni
1941Megobroba Vardeni
1942Giorgi Saakadze Shadiman Chavchavadze
1944Kutuzov Prince Bagration
1948Keto da Kote
1953The Great Warrior Skanderbeg Laonicus
1960Dge ukanaskneli, dge pirveli Giorgi
1962Zgvis biliki Old sailor
1963Paliastomi Ivane
1965Father of a Soldier Giorgi Makharashvili
1966Shekhvedra tsarsultan Almaskhani
1967Male gazapkhuli mova Minago
1969Don't Grieve Doctor Levan Tsintsadze
1970Waterloo Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher(final film role)

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 748–749.
  2. Web site: 4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965) . 2012-12-08 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116145645/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1965 . 2013-01-16 .