Nino "Nutsa" Gogoberidze (also spelled ''Ghoghoberidze''; ; 1903–1966) was a pioneering Georgian film director. She was an associate of

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and

Alexander Dovzhenko Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko (, ; November 25, 1956), was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei ...

. Her 1934 film ''Uzhmuri'' was the first Georgian feature film in the

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directed by a woman.

Life

Nutsa Gogoberidze was born in Kakhi,

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, in 1903. She obtained a degree from the philosophy department of the

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. She married

Levan Gogoberidze Levan Davidovich Gogoberidze ( ka, ლევან ღოღობერიძე; ; 21 January 1896 – 21 March 1937) was a Soviet and Georgian Bolshevik and politician. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party from 6 May t ...

, a communist party activist. In the 1930s, because of his activities, she was repressed. Following his execution in 1937, she was exiled for 10 years. Upon her return, she abandoned the film industry and joined the Linguistics Institute in Tbilisi. Her daughter

Lana Gogoberidze Lana Gogoberidze ( ka, ლანა ღოღობერიძე) (born 13 October 1928 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian film director, as well as a former diplomat and member of parliament. Biography Gogoberidze's mother was Nutsa Gogoberidze, an ...

and granddaughter Salomé Alexi are also film directors. Gogoberidze died in

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in 1966. Gogoberidze's life was covered in the 2023 documentary ''Mother and Daughter, or the Night Is Never Complete'', directed by Lana Gogoberidze and with Salomé Alexi as producer and co-director.

Career

Gogoberidze's first film, ''Mati Samepo'' (''Their Kingdom'') was made with Mikhail Kalatozov. In 1930, Gogoberidze released ''Buba'', a dramatised propaganda film. This was almost immediately banned, and was not screened for decades. The reels remained with the

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, the Soviet (now Russian) film archive, and were handed over to the Georgians in 2016. Gogoberidze's feature-film ''Uzhmuri'' was released in 1934 and was also banned after it came out. The film was considered lost until it was found at Gosfilmofond in December 2018.

Filmography

* ''Mati Samepo'' (''Their Kingdom'', 1928) (with

Mikhail Kalatozov Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov ( ka, მიხეილ კალატოზიშვილი, ; 28 December 1903 – 26 March 1973), born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a Soviet film director of Georgians, Georgian origin who contributed to b ...

) * ''Buba'' (1930, with

David Kakabadze Davit Kakabadze ( ka, დავით კაკაბაძე) (20 August 1889 – 10 May 1952) was a leading Georgian avant-garde painter, graphic artist and scenic designer. A multi-talent, he was also an art scholar and innovator in the fi ...

) * ''Uzhmuri'' (1934)

References

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