Rezo gabriadze biography
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Rezo Gabriadze: Legendary Georgian puppeteer dies at 84
One of the Soviet art world's most famous figures, Georgian theatre director Rezo Gabriadze, has died at 84 in Tbilisi.
Gabriadze was known internationally for exquisite puppet theatre productions such as his poignant depiction of the Battle of Stalingrad.
He also wrote the scripts of some of the USSR's most popular films.
His comedies included Mimino (1977), about the life of a pilot, and the cult sci-fi film Kin-dza-dza (1986).
Another of his more than 35 screenplays, Don't Grieve (1969), transposed the tragicomic French novel My Uncle Benjamin to Georgia.
News of his death was announced by officials and confirmed by relatives.
He won awards in Georgia, the USSR and Russia.
A profile on the website of his puppet theatre in Tbilisi records that he was also a film and stage director, a painter and a sculptor.
But he channelled much of his creativity into his puppet work.
Bringing his take on the Battle of Stalingrad to London in 2002, he told BBC News that during Soviet times, he had often identified with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, seeing himself as a castaway from world culture on the desert island of
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Rezo Gabriadze
A poet who expresses himself in various ways, Rezo Gabriadze writes, draws, sculpts, builds, paints, and creates the characters and stories he directs in the theatre he founded in 1981 in Tbilisi, Georgia. After working as a journalist, he began his career in cinema “by accident,” but soon found himself directing his own films. Up until the 1990s, he also wrote many screenplays for films which met with great success in the USSR, notably Mimino and Kin-dza-dza! According to him, it's also “by accident” that he picked up puppetry, becoming a master of the art with The Autumn of our Springtime in 1985. Next to his theatre, characters, sets, and other creations fill a wondrous tower which illustrates his relationship to the world: in his work, inanimate objects aren't necessarily deprived of souls, and the past and the present keep crossing in always delicate ways, sometimes with extravagance and often with humour. Recognised throughout the world for the enchanting way he uses his childhood and his ties to Soviet Russia in his work, Rezo Gabriadze now returns to the Festival d'Avignon twenty years after The Song of the Volga.
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World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts
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