Sergo Zakariadze

Sergo Zakariadze
Sergo Zakariadze
Born	1 July 1909; Baku, Russian Empire
Died	12 April 1971 (aged 61); Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actor, theater pedagogue
Years active	1926–1971

Sergo Zakariadze (Georgian: სერგო ზაქარიაძე [seɾɡo zakʰaɾiad͡ze]; 1 July [O.S. June 18] 1909 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actor and pedagogue. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 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

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

^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 748–749. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-08.

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