Giuli Chokhonelidze

Giuli Chokhonelidze
გიული ჭოხონელიძე
Chokhonelidze as Pyotr Bagration
Born(1929-04-10)10 April 1929
Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died24 December 2008(2008-12-24) (aged 79)
Tbilisi, Georgia
OccupationsActor, film director, screenwriter
Years active1953–2001

Giuli Iasonis dze Chokhonelidze (Georgian: გიული ჭოხონელიძე; 10 April 1929 – 24 December 2008) was a Georgian stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter. He is best known for playing General Pyotr Bagration in Sergei Bondarchuk's film War and Peace, and was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1983.[1]

Early life and education

Chokhonelidze was born on 10 April 1929 in Tbilisi.[1] He graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute in Tbilisi in 1951 and then spent a year at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov.[1]

Career

From 1953 to 1958 Chokhonelidze was an actor at the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi, and from 1958 he worked in cinema.[1] One of his early notable screen roles was Ibrahim in Fatima (1958).[2]

His best-known role was General Pyotr Bagration in Sergei Bondarchuk's film epic War and Peace (1965–1967), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[2] He returned to the same historical figure in 1985 as the director, screenwriter and star of the film Bagrationi.[1]

As a director, Chokhonelidze also made Kochora (1967), Spring Evening (1972), The Land of the Ancestors (1979), Spiral (1990) and Antimoz Iverieli (2001).[1]

Awards and honours

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Death

Chokhonelidze died in Tbilisi on 24 December 2008.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Giuli Chokhonelidze". Georgian Biographical Dictionary. National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  2. ^ a b Чохонелидзе Гиули Ясонович [Chokhonelidze, Giuli Yasonovich]. Mosfilm (in Russian). Retrieved 7 June 2026.

Further reading

  • Book of Honour. Vol. 4. Tbilisi. 2002. p. 131 (in Georgian).

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