Siko Dolidze

Siko Dolidze
სიკო დოლიძე
Born
Simon Besarionis dze Dolidze

(1903-02-06)6 February 1903
Ozurgeti, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
Died17 June 1983(1983-06-17) (aged 80)
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Resting place
Didube Pantheon, Tbilisi
OccupationsFilm director, screenwriter
Years active1925–1982

Simon "Siko" Besarionis dze Dolidze (Georgian: სიმონ "სიკო" ბესარიონის ძე დოლიძე; 6 February 1903 – 17 June 1983) was a Georgian film director and screenwriter. One of the pioneers of Georgian cinema, he directed films at the Tbilisi film studio (now Gruziya-Film) over more than five decades and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.[1][2]

Early life and education

Dolidze was born on 6 February 1903 in Ozurgeti, then part of the Kutaisi Governorate of the Russian Empire.[1] In 1925 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Tbilisi State University.[1]

Career

Also in 1925, Dolidze began working at the Georgian state film enterprise (Goskinprom Gruzii, the forerunner of the Tbilisi film studio and present-day Gruziya-Film), first as an administrator and assistant director and then as a director of feature, documentary and animated films.[1] In 1928 he founded and headed the studio's newsreel section.[1] He made his first short film, A Day in Karacho, in 1927, and his first feature, In the Land of Avalanches, in 1931.[1]

His best-known films include the popular Dariko (1936) and Jurgha's Shield (1944), the latter co-directed with David Rondeli, for which the two received the Stalin Prize in 1950.[1] His later films include Kukaracha (1982). Dolidze also wrote the screenplays for many of his own films, and was the author of the play Eagle's Nest (1947).[1]

From 1957 to 1976 Dolidze chaired the board of the Union of Cinematographers of the Georgian SSR.[1]

Awards and honours

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Death and legacy

Dolidze died in Tbilisi on 17 June 1983 and was buried at the Didube Pantheon.[1][5] A monument to him stands in Ozurgeti, where a street is also named after him.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 სიკო დოლიძე [Siko Dolidze]. Georgian Biographical Dictionary (in Georgian). National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
  2. ↑ Encyclopedia "Georgia". Vol. 2. Tbilisi. 2012. p. 476 (in Georgian).
  3. ↑ "Указ о присвоении почетных званий деятелям искусств Грузинской ССР" (PDF). Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta Gruzinskoy Sovetskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Respubliki (in Russian). No. 2. April 1958. pp. 57–58.
  4. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О награждении особо отличившихся работников кинематографии»". Pravda. No. 16. 2 February 1939. p. 3. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021.
  5. ↑ "სიკო დოლიძე" (PDF). Komunisti (in Georgian). No. 142. 21 June 1983. p. 3.

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