Giga Lortkipanidze

Giga Lortkipanidze
გიგა ლორთქიფანიძე
Giga Lortkipanidze
Born
Grigol Lortkipanidze

(1927-10-19)19 October 1927
Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died13 June 2013(2013-06-13) (aged 85)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Resting place
Didube Pantheon, Tbilisi
OccupationsTheatre and film director
Years active1950–2003
SpouseKetevan Kiknadze

Grigol "Giga" Davitis dze Lortkipanidze (Georgian: გიგა ლორთქიფანიძე; 19 October 1927 – 13 June 2013) was a Georgian theatre and film director. A leading figure of Georgian theatre—long associated with the Marjanishvili Theatre—and the director of the acclaimed television series Data Tutashkhia, he was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1979.[1][2]

Early life and education

Lortkipanidze was born on 19 October 1927 in Tbilisi.[1] He studied at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute in Tbilisi and in 1950 graduated from the directing faculty of the State Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow.[1]

Career

Lortkipanidze directed at several of Georgia's principal theatres. He was for many years a director and artistic head of the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi, led the Lado Meskhishvili Theatre in Kutaisi and the Griboedov Russian Drama Theatre, and in 1967 founded the State Drama Theatre in Rustavi, which he led until 1976.[1] He later served as artistic director of Georgian Television (1984–1986) and of the Vaso Abashidze Musical Theatre, and he also staged productions in Moscow, including at the Sovremennik.[1]

In cinema, Lortkipanidze directed the seven-part television series Data Tutashkhia (1977, with Gizo Gabeskiria), based on the novel by Chabua Amirejibi, for which he received the USSR State Prize in 1981.[1] His other films include The Land of Our Ancestors (1979, with Giuli Chokhonelidze) and White Flags (1990).[1]

Public life

Lortkipanidze was rector of the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University in 1999–2000 and, from 1985, chairman of the Union of Theatre Workers of Georgia.[1] He was a member of the Parliament of Georgia in the 1990s and was made an honorary citizen of Tbilisi in 1996.[1]

Awards and honours

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Personal life

Lortkipanidze was married to the actress Ketevan Kiknadze; his sister was the historian Marika Lortkipanidze.[1] He died in Tbilisi on 13 June 2013 and was buried at the Didube Pantheon.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 გიგა ლორთქიფანიძე [Giga Lortkipanidze]. Georgian Biographical Dictionary (in Georgian). National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  2. ↑ "Lortkipanidze, Giga" (PDF). Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia (in Georgian). Vol. 6. Tbilisi. 1983. pp. 293–294.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета Грузинской ССР О присвоении почетных званий работникам Тбилисского государственного русского драматического театра им. А. С. Грибоедова" (PDF). Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta Gruzinskoy Sovetskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Respubliki. No. 12. December 1970.
  4. ↑ "Постановление О присуждении государственных премий Грузинской ССР им. Шота Руставели за 1985 год" (PDF). Zarya Vostoka. No. 48. 25 February 1985. p. 3.
  5. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении орденами и медалями СССР работников искусства и литературы Грузинской ССР" (PDF). Zarya Vostoka (in Russian). No. 92. 19 April 1958. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 January 2026.

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