Session of “Georgian Unity Hall” congress, dedicated to the memory of Rezo Chkheidze was held in the Centre of the Spiritual and Intellectual Development of Youth at the Patriarchate of Georgia on 8th of December, 2015. At the meeting there was remembered the letter of Rezo Chkheidze – “My request, maybe, the last one”. The participants also discussed the programs of “World Congress of all Georgians” and 850 anniversary of Shota Rustaveli. At the end of the event was shown short biographical film about Rezo Chkheidze - “That I remember.” The participants of the meeting were Rezo’s friends and family members, as well as public figures. A film director, popular artist of Georgia Revaz (Rezo) Chkheidze was born in Kutaisi in 1926, in the family of a famous writer Davit Chkheidze (pen name – Dia Chianeli), who was executed during the great purge in 1937. In 1943-1946 he studied in Tbilisi State Institute of Theatre, in 1953 graduated directional faculty of All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (workshop of S. Yutkevich and M. Romm). In 1963-81 Rezo Chkheidze was a secretary of the Union of Georgian Cinematographers, in 1063-73 – art director of Movie Studio. From 1974 – a teacher at Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University (professor, a head of movie faculty), from 1973 until 2006 he was appointed executive director of Georgia’s “Kartuli Filmi” studio (now joint-stock company “Kartuli Filmi” (Georgian Movie)). From 1992 he was a president of The World Congress of All Georgians. With a film director Tengiz Abuladze he co-directed TV miniseries: “Our Palace” (1953), “The Georgian State Dancing Company” (1954) and film “Magdana’s Donkey”(1955), which won the golden palm at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival and I prize the X International Film Festival in Edinburg in 1956). He directed the following movies: “Our Courtyard” (1956, which won a golden medal, I prize and diploma at the VI World Film Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957), “Maya from Tskneti” (1959), “Treasure” (1961; which won the I prize at the II international film Festival in Delhi), “Sea Path” (1962), “A Soldier’s Father” (1964; won award in Cork (Ireland) at the X International film Festival, a diploma at International Film Festivals in San Francisco and Salonika, a prize at II International Film festival in Rome in 1965), “Smiling Lads” (1969, won a prize of Young Communist League of Georgia together with “A Soldier’s Father” in 1970), “The Saplings” (1972; won a diploma at the international Film Festival in Moscow and Tashkent in 1973), “My homeland!” (1980; won the highest prize and award at the XIV All-Union Film Festival in Vilnius in 1981. Revaz Chkheidze has also won prize of Lenin, but rejected it in 1991). Revas Chkheidze is awarded with the Order of Lenin, he is also the Chevalier Legion of Honor (1996), in 2001 he was granted as the Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi. Revas Chkheidze died on May 4, 2015. He is buried in the Didube Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures.

 

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