Zurab Kapianidze
ActingAlso Known As
Zura Qapianidze
Biography
Zurab Kapanadze (born April 1, 1937, Nakieti village, Oni district - died July 4, 2011, Tbilisi) was a Georgian actor. People’s Artist of Georgia (1979), Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize (1985). In 1961, he graduated from the theatrical faculty of the Shota Rustaveli State Theater Institute in Tbilisi. From 1961 to 1964, he worked at the Kutaisi Lado Meskhishvili State Drama Theater. From 1964, he was an actor at the “Georgian Film” studio. From 1999 to 2004, he was a member of the Georgian Parliament of the 5th convocation, on the list of the electoral bloc “Revival of Georgia”. He passed away in Tbilisi in 2011 and was buried in the Didube Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures, the resting place of many prominent Georgian artists, scientists, and public figures.
Movies
(41 total)
Pirosmani
as Ushangi
Falling Leaves
as Dato's companion
The Plea
as Zviaduri
Ballad of Khevsureti
as Apareka
Feola
as Besik - violinist
Wedding
as Jovan Vuksanović
The Saplings
as Cart driver
Tbilisi, Paris, Tbilisi
as Odishelidze
Look at These Young People!
as Shaliko
Chermen
as Berdia
Crucified Island
as Simona
Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...
as Zurab Toladze
