Kote Mikaberidze

Directing

Born: 1896-07-31 · Temryuk, Kuban

Died: 1973-01-09

Biography

Film director, scriptwriter, actor, painter and dubbing director. From 1918, he worked as an actor at the Kutaisi and Batumi theaters, moving to Tbilisi drama studio in the 1920s. He started to act in films from 1921. His first screenplay RTVELI (The Harvest), based on Dziga Vertov’s “Kino-Eye” concept, was submitted to Tbilisi film studio in 1928, but was never produced. In 1929, he made a silent film CHEMI BEBIA (My Grandmother, 1929), satire on bureaucracy, which considered as a central to