Giuli Chokhonelidze

Giuli Chokhonelidze studied at Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University and Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is acting, film direction and film screenwriting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Soviet Union. Distinctions recorded are People's artist of the Georgian SSR.

• Name — Giuli Chokhonelidze • Native Name — გიული ჭოხონელიძე • Born — 10 April 1929 • Birthplace — Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union • Died — 24 December 2008 • Place of death — Tbilisi, Georgia • Occupation — Actor, film director, screenwriter • Years Active — 1953–2001

Chokhonelidze was born on 10 April 1929 in Tbilisi. He graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute in Tbilisi in 1951 and then spent a year at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov.

From 1953 to 1958 Chokhonelidze was an actor at the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi, and from 1958 he worked in cinema. One of his early notable screen roles was Ibrahim in Fatima (1958). His best-known role was General Pyotr Bagration in Sergei Bondarchuk's film epic War and Peace (1965–1967), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He returned to the same historical figure in 1985 as the director, screenwriter and star of the film Bagrationi. As a director, Chokhonelidze also made Kochora (1967), Spring Evening (1972), The Land of the Ancestors (1979), Spiral (1990) and Antimoz Iverieli (2001).

Chokhonelidze died in Tbilisi on 24 December 2008.

Giuli Chokhonelidze is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as actor, film director, screenwriter and filmmaker.