Born in 1924 and dying in 1994, Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian director, a People's Artist of the USSR and a teacher at the Rustaveli Theatre Institute. After Magdana's Donkey, which won best short at Cannes in 1956, he made Other People's Children (1958) and Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion (1962). His trilogy The Plea (1968), The Wishing Tree (1977) and Repentance (1984) culminated in a satire on tyranny that was shelved for years and released in 1987 under glasnost.
Filmography
- Magdana's Donkey (1955)
- Me, Grandma, Iliko and Ilarion (1962)
- The Plea (1968)
- The Wishing Tree (1977)
- Repentance (1984)