Shota Laperadze (28 February 1929 – 11 March 1995) was a
Georgian film producer who produced twenty films between 1959 and 1995. From 1959 to 1991 he worked as a film producer at Georgian Film Studio. From 1991 to 1995, Laperadze was a head of the film unions - “Aisi” and “Caucasus.” He was a member of the Film-makers' Union of Georgia from 1978 until his death.
In 1974 Laperadze received an award as a best film producer for the film ''Mze Shemodgomisa'' ''(Autumn Sun)''. Laperadze often worked with Georgian
film director
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Rezo Chkheidze
Revaz "Rezo" Chkheidze ( ka, რევაზ "რეზო" ჩხეიძე; 8 December 1926 – 3 May 2015) was a Georgian film director, People's Artist of the USSR, best known for his Soviet-era drama films, including his 1964 World Wa ...
; together they made eight films, including ''
Father of a Soldier'' (1964), which was entered into the
4th Moscow International Film Festival
The 4th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1965. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film ''War and Peace (film series), War and Peace'' directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and the Hungarian film ''Twenty Hours'' di ...
and ''
The Saplings'' (1972) that was entered into the
8th Moscow International Film Festival
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where it won a Diploma.
Laperadze also worked with other film directors such as
Otar Iosseliani
Otar Iosseliani ( ka, ოთარ იოსელიანი ''otar ioseliani''; 2 February 1934 – 17 December 2023) was a Georgian film director, known for movies such as '' Falling Leaves'', '' Pastorale'' and '' Favorites of the Moon''. I ...
,
Georgiy Shengelaya and
Temur Babluani
Temur Babluani ( ka, თემურ ბაბლუანი) (born 20 March 1948) is a Georgian film director, script writer, and actor.
Biography
Bebluani was born in the mountainous Svanetian village of Chaguri in the Georgian SSR. He grad ...
. In 1975 Laperadze produced Otar Iosseliani`s film ''
Pastorale
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In Baroque music, a pastorale is a movement of a melody in thirds over a drone bass, recalling the Christmas music of ''pifferari'', players of the traditi ...
'', the film received an award on
Berlin International Film Festival
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in 1982.
Filmography
* ''Seashore Path'' (1962)
* ''
Father of a Soldier'' (1964)
* ''Matsi Khvitia'' (1966)
* ''Look at These Young People'' (1969)
* ''Peola'' (1970)
* ''The Star of My City'' (1970)
* ''
The Saplings'' (1972)
* ''Autumn Sun'' (1973)
* ''Flowering Acacia'' (1974)
* ''Errantry'' (1975)
* ''Pastorale'' (1975)
* ''The Wager'' (1975)
* ''Bakula's Pigs'' (1976)
* ''Return'' (1977)
* ''My Friend, Uncle Vania'' (1978)
* ''Earth, This Is Your Son'' (1980)
* ''Brother'' (1981)
* ''The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho'' (1989) (TV Mini-Series)
* ''The Fallen Angel'' (1992)
References
External links
* https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487446/
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1930 births
1995 deaths
Film directors from Georgia (country)
Screenwriters from Georgia (country)
Soviet film producers
20th-century screenwriters