The jubilee week dedicated to director Tengiz Abuladze’s 100th birthday will open on January 27 in the National Archives of Georgia.

At the event, the audience will have the opportunity to view the exhibition of rare posters of Tengiz Abuladze’s films, to get acquainted with the book “Tengiz Abuladze – Reflections” by Nana Janelidze and Nino Natroshvili, which contains the memories of Tengiz Abuladze’s contemporaries, members of his group. The book represents a kind of panorama of the golden age of Georgian cinema. In the same book, you will find unique photographs from Abuladze’s filming.

This is the third edition of the book, and this time it is being published by “Cezanne Publishing”.

Also, Nana Janelidze’s documentary film “Tengiz Abuladze - The Wishing Tree” (2002) and Tengiz Abuladze’s feature film “Jewel for my life” (1971) will be shown (restored version).

Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People’s Artist of the USSR. He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors.

Abuladze studied theatre direction (1943–1946) at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK in Moscow. He graduated from VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziya-film (Georgia Film Studios) as a director.

His first film, Magdana’s Donkey (1956), which he directed with Rezo Chkheidze, won the “Best Fiction Short” award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. He is most famous for his film trilogy: The Plea (The Supplication) (1968), The Wishing Tree (1977), and Repentance (1984, released 1987), which won him the Lenin Prize (1988) and the first Nika Award for Best Picture. Repentance won the Special Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.