Karlo Sakandelidze was a Georgian

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...

 film and theatre actor.

Sakandelidze was born in Bzvani, Georgia

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...

. He was an actor with the Rustaveli Theatre

Rustaveli Theatre

Rustaveli National Theatre also referred to as Rustaveli State Drama Theatre, is found in Tbilisi, Georgia. The theatre is conveniently located at 17 Rustaveli Avenue, one of the main streets in Tbilisi...

. Sakandelidze's Important roles included Gogia (Losve Story), Gio (Tariel Golua), Osiko Kharebadze (The Autumn Nobles) Kuchara (Kvarkvare Tutaberi), Toshek (Such a Love), Chinchraka (Chinchraka), Butkhuza (The Old Pipers), Aristo Kvashavadze (The Stepmother of Samanaishvili), Peasant and Husband (The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its natural parents....

), Catesby (Richard III

Richard III (play)

Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified...

), and Scrooge in (Christmas Dream

Christmas Dream

Christmas Dream is a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice with German lyrics by Andre Heller for the 1974 Columbia film The Odessa File. It is sung by Perry Como and The London Boy Singers and is included on the album "A Perry Como Christmas"....

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Karlo Sakandelidze also acted in films. His first film was Magdanas Lurja (1955), directed by Tengiz Abuladze

Tengiz Abuladze

Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director.Abuladze studied theatre direction at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK in Moscow. He graduated VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziya-film as a director...

 and Rezo Chkheidze, where he played the role of Vano. This film received a Golden Palm at the Cannes film festival

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

, for the best fiction film-short. Another important role for Sakandeidze was in the movie Data Tutashxia, in which he played Nikandro Qiria.

He died in Tbilisi

Tbilisi

Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...

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External links

• The Rustaveli State Academic Theatre website
• Actors of Rustaveli State Theatre at the Parliament of Georgia
  Parliament of Georgia
  Parliament of Georgia is the supreme legislature of Georgia. It is unicameral and has 150 members, known as deputies, from which 75 members are proportional representatives and 75 are elected through single-member district plurality system, representing their constituencies...
  
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