Sergo Zakariadze

Sergo Zakariadze (Georgian: სერგო ზაქარიაძე [seɾɡo zakʰaɾiad͡ze]; 1 July [O.S. June 18] 1909 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1958).

Zakariadze was born in Baku in 1909. He won several prizes, among them Best Actor honors at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival for his portrayal of an old peasant who joined the Red Army in order to find his son in the movie Father of a Soldier (Djariskatsis mama). His final role was in Bondarchuk's Waterloo as Prussian Marschall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, just a few months before his death. He died in Tbilisi.

Filmography

Awards

• Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Medal "For Labour Valour" (1941)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1944)
• People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1946)
• Stalin Prize, 1st class (1946)
• Order of the Badge of Honour (1950)
• Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1952)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1958)
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1965)
• Lenin Prize (1966)
• Order of Lenin (1967)
• Shota Rustaveli Prize (1971, posthumous)

References

External links

• Sergo Zakariadze at IMDb
• Photograph from photo.ru
• "Sergo Zakariadze". actors.ru. Retrieved 26 March 2005.