David Rondeli
David Evgenis dze Rondeli (born David Tsagareishvili; 11 April 1904 – 12 March 1976) was a Georgian film director and screenwriter. He directed several films at the Tbilisi film studio over more than four decades, including the acclaimed comedy Lost Paradise (1937), and was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1961.
Also recorded as Davit Rondeli · Davit Tsagareishvili
David Rondeli
- Name
- David Rondeli
- Birth Name
- David Tsagareishvili
- Born
- 11 April 1904
- Birthplace
- Kutaisi, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
- Died
- 12 March 1976
- Place of death
- Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Soviet Union.
- Education
- Tbilisi State University.
- Honours
- Stalin Prize, Order of the Badge of Honour, People's artist of the Georgian SSR and Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.
- Languages
- Russian.
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David Evgenis dze Rondeli (born David Tsagareishvili; 11 April 1904 – 12 March 1976) was a Georgian film director and screenwriter. He directed several films at the Tbilisi film studio over more than four decades, including the acclaimed comedy Lost Paradise (1937), and was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1961.
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David Rondeli (1904–1976) was a film director, filmmaker and screenwriter, of Soviet nationality. The film director was born in Kutaisi and died in Tbilisi.
David Rondeli was educated at Tbilisi State University. The film director was a member of Association of Filmmakers of the USSR.
Languages used include Russian. Honours include Order of the Badge of Honour, People's artist of the Georgian SSR and Stalin Prize.
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• Name — David Rondeli • Native Name — დავით რონდელი • Birth Name — David Tsagareishvili • Born — 11 April 1904 • Birthplace — Kutaisi, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 12 March 1976 • Place of death — Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter • Years Active — 1930–1974 • Children — Alexander Rondeli
Early life and career
Early life and career
Rondeli was born David Tsagareishvili on 11 April 1904 in Kutaisi, then part of the Kutaisi Governorate of the Russian Empire. He graduated from Tbilisi State University and from 1923 worked as a newspaper correspondent, later serving as chief editor of the journal Proletarian Literature. In 1928 Rondeli entered the cinema, joining the Georgian state film studio (Goskinprom Gruzii, now Gruziya-Film) as head of its scenario department, then as an assistant director, and from 1930 as a director. He worked as both a director and a screenwriter.
Personal life
Personal life
Rondeli's son, Alexander Rondeli (1942–2015), was a prominent Georgian political scientist and diplomat. David Rondeli died in Tbilisi on 12 March 1976 and was buried at the Saburtalo Pantheon.
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1904
David Rondeli was born on 29 March 1904.
1976
David Rondeli died on 12 March 1976.
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In 1937 Rondeli directed Lost Paradise, a satire adapted from the stories of David Kldiashvili, which brought him wide recognition and has been described as one of the finest Georgian comedies of the 1930s. For the 1944 film Jurgha's Shield, co-directed with Siko Dolidze, the two received the Stalin Prize in 1950. In 1951 he directed Conquerors of the Peaks, the first colour film in Georgian cinema. His other films include Mamluqi (1958) and My Friend Nodar (1967). In 1953–1954 Rondeli was chief editor of the collegium of the Georgian Ministry of Cinematography, and he also taught at the film school of the Tbilisi studio and at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute.
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Awards and honours
• Honoured Art Worker of the Georgian SSR (1945) • Stalin Prize, First Class (1950), for Jurgha's Shield • People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1961) • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1966) • Two Orders of the Badge of Honour (1944, 1958)
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- 1.Lost Paradise (Dakarguli samotkhe) – Davit Rondeli, Georgia 1938. British Georgian Society.
- 2.National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Georgian Biographical Dictionary.
- 3.В Совете Министров СССР. Zarya Vostoka. 122. 1. 10 June 1950.
- 4.Народного артиста Грузинской ССР:. Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta Gruzinskoy Sovetskoy Sotsialisticheskoy Respubliki. 14. 449-450. May 1961.
- 5.Д. Е. Рондели. Zarya Vostoka. 62. 3. 16 March 1976.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Loladze, V. (1954). David Rondeli (in Georgian). Tbilisi.
- Rondeli, David. Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia. 8. 443. 1984.
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David Rondeli received Stalin Prize, Order of the Badge of Honour, People's artist of the Georgian SSR and Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945". Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as having received Stalin Prize, Order of the Badge of Honour and People's artist of the Georgian SSR.
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