Goderdzi Chokheli
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Goderdzi Chokheli (October 2, 1954 – November 16, 2007) was a Georgian
novelist, scriptwriter, and film director.
Born in the village Chokhi in then-Soviet Georgia, he graduated from Tbilisi State Theatre Institute in 1979, and debuted in cinema in 1978. Some of his most successful films are The Resurrection (1982), Human Sadness (1984), Easter Lamb (1988), The Children of Sin (1989), The Birds of Paradise (1997), The Gospel According to Luke (1998), and The Chained Knights (2000).
He also authored several novellas and collections of stories such as Letter to Fir-trees, Twilight Gorge, People Melancholy, Wolf, Fish's Letters, Priest’s Sin, Keep me Motherland, Pursuer Fate, Going to Heaven, and The Life of the Grass.
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
novelist, scriptwriter, and film director.
Born in the village Chokhi in then-Soviet Georgia, he graduated from Tbilisi State Theatre Institute in 1979, and debuted in cinema in 1978. Some of his most successful films are The Resurrection (1982), Human Sadness (1984), Easter Lamb (1988), The Children of Sin (1989), The Birds of Paradise (1997), The Gospel According to Luke (1998), and The Chained Knights (2000).
He also authored several novellas and collections of stories such as Letter to Fir-trees, Twilight Gorge, People Melancholy, Wolf, Fish's Letters, Priest’s Sin, Keep me Motherland, Pursuer Fate, Going to Heaven, and The Life of the Grass.