Lana Gogoberidze
Lana Gogoberidze (Georgian: ლანა ღოღობერიძე) (born October 13, 1928, Tbilisi) is a Georgian film director, as well as a former diplomat and member of parliament.[1]
Biography
[edit]Gogoberidze's mother was Nutsa Gogoberidze, another notable female Georgian director.[2] Her father, Levan Gogoberidze, was murdered as a part of the Great Purge in 1937, while her mother was sent to a prison camp for twelve years.
Because of the situation with her parents, Gogoberidze was first sent to an orphanage and later taken in by her aunts. She also wanted to become a director, but the relevant education was not accessible to her because both her parents were being politically persecuted. She instead studied English and American literature, including the work of Walt Whitman, at Tbilisi State University.[3] Following the death of Stalin, she could go on to study at the Department of Film-making of Moscow State University, from which she graduated in 1958.[4] Gogoberidze headed the Director's Studio at the Rustaveli Theatre School, Tbilisi, in 1975.
In 1988, she became President of the International Association of Women Directors.[4] She was elected to the Parliament of Georgia from 1992 to 1995. From 1996 to 2000, she was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.[5] In 2004, she served as Georgia's Ambassador to France.
Gogoberidze's fiction and documentary movies have won several international awards. Her film Day Is Longer Than Night was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.[6] In the same year, she was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.[7] She also holds the State Award of the USSR, the State Award of the Georgian SSR, the People's Artist of the Republic of Georgia and the French Legion of Honour.[4]
Gogoberidze was married beginning in 1958 to the architect Vladimir Aleksi-Meskhishvili (died 1978).[8] She has two daughters, with Salomé Alexi also becoming a director.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 257–258. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- ^ "Nutsa Gogoberidze". Heinrich Böll Foundation.
- ^ Rachel Pronger (13 October 2021). "Lana Gogoberidze: the feminist filmmaker at the centre of a Georgian cinematic dynasty". New East Digital Archive.
- ^ a b c "Lana Gogoberidze – Director". British Georgian Society.
- ^ "Ms Lana GOGOBERIDZE (Georgia)". Council of Europe.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Day Is Longer Than Night". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1984 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ^ Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (1995), Women Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary, pp. 148-9. Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-28972-7
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