Veriko Anjaparidze

Veriko (Vera) Ivlianovna Anjaparidze (Georgian: ვერიკო ანჯაფარიძე, 6 October [O.S. 23 September] 1897 in Kutaisi – 1987 in Tbilisi) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actress.[1]

Veriko Anjaparidze

Life and career

Andjaparidze studied at the Aidarov Drama Studio in Moscow in 1916–1917 and at the Aleksandre Djabadari studio in Tbilisi in 1918–1921. Since 1920, Veriko Anjaparidze was an actress at the Shota Rustaveli State Theater in Tbilisi, and since 1927 she moved to the Marjanishvili Theatre, also in Tbilisi.[1] Later, she became the art director of the theater.[2] She was also teaching at the Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi Theater Institute.[3]

Andjaparidze’s film debut was in Vladimir Barskii’s Horrors of the Past (1925). She then played supporting parts in Yuri Zheliabuzhskii’s Dina Dza-Dzu (1926) and Nikoloz Shengelaia’s Twenty-six Commissars (1932). In 1929, Andjaparidze starred in Mikheil Chiaureli’s morality tale about alcoholism Saba. She soon achieved a unique status as one of the leading female actresses of Georgian cinema, who was honored under all Soviet political leaders, from Iosif Stalin to Mikhail Gorbachev. She also starred as Rusudan in Chiaureli’s epic Georgi Zaakadze (1942–1946), the kolkhoz director Nino in Nikoloz Sanishvili’s comedy Happy Encounter (1949), and the lead in Siko Dolidze’s popular rural drama Encounter with the Past (1966). Tengiz Abuladze cast Andjaparidze in a minor yet essential role in his anti-totalitarian testament Repentance (1984).

Recognition and Honors

Veriko Anjaparidze's contributions to the arts earned her several prestigious awards and recognitions. She was the recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1943, 1946, and 1952, demonstrating her consistent excellence in the field. In 1950, she was awarded the title of the People's Artist of the USSR, reflecting her significant impact on the Soviet and Georgian theater.

Personal life

She was the wife of the film director Mikheil Chiaureli and the mother of the actress Sofiko Chiaureli. Anjaparidze is buried in Mtatsminda Pantheon.

Selected filmography

References
  1. Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 46. ISBN 978-1442268425.
  2. Veriko Anjaparidze (in Russian). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1969.
  3. Верико Ивлиановна Анджапаридзе
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