Cinema and TV
Tamaz Vashakidze has acted as main characters in the following films (first Georgian video ballet performances!):
“Odeon”
Prize-winner of the Cannes TV Film Festival.
Screenplay and direction: Alexander Vakhtangov (member of the Board of Directors of the International EMMY Award, winner of the State Prize of Georgia).
Composer: Alfred Schnittke.
Country: Georgia, Russia (Lentelefilm, Georgian TV Film).
Year of release: 1993.
Main characters acted by: Tamaz Vashakidze, Nato Murvanidze, Gogi Osepaishvili.
www.geocinema.ge/en/index.php?filmi=682
“Ballet Master”
The Best Georgian TV film in 1996.
Screenplay and direction: Alexander Vakhtangov.
Composer: Davit Evgenidze.
Main characters acted by: Maka Makharadze, Tamaz Vashakidze, Irma Nioradze.
www.geocinema.ge/en/index.php?filmi=643
“Night Dreams”
Finalist of the EMMN TV Films Festival in New York, 1999.
Screenplay and direction: Alexander Vakhtangov.
Compose: Dmitri Shostakovich.
Main character acted by: Tamaz Vashakidze.
www.geocinema.ge/en/index.php?filmi=685
Video clips
Films of Alexander Vakhtangov
By courtesy of Alexander Vakhtangov now there is a chance to get acquainted with online versions of all the three of his video works, where Tamaz Vashakidze was engaged.
The video is broadcasted from the Internet service YouTube.com.
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Odeon |
Ballet Master |
Night Dreams |
Unfulfilled project of Serge Paradjanov
Serge Paradjanov
APPLICATION FOR PRODUCTION of the FILM-BALLET “MOTHER”
Dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Great October revolution. Composer — Schedrin or Kancheli?
The music collage will be based harmoniously on children choirs, folk songs and dances material, chastushkas (Humorous rhyme often improvised and sung in a string of others as a folklore tradition. — Translator’s note), canons combined with specific sounds and noises, such as factory whistle, alarm sirens, bell-ringing, police whistle etc.
In the final part of the ballet there will be a symphonic intermezzo, and the apotheosis will be translated by harps and bells combined with coloratura soprano vocalization.
Ballet designer — Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili.
The role of the Mother will be performed by Maya Plisetskaya and Irina Jandieri.
Pavel Vlassov will be acted by Tamaz Vashakidze.
The outstanding young ballet master Georgi Alexidze is the only possible candidate for staging. The scene of the «May Day Celebration» besides the main ballet company will engage creative teams from the people’s theatres, The Pioneer Palace, The Ballet Art School.
Tiflis. Mtatsminda, 1986.
Anastassiya Korchenkova. From Application to the Screen (www.zhurnal.lib.ru)
Also Tamaz Vashakidze acted in films:
- “Ashik-Kerib” (watch video fragment) directed by Serge Parajanov
- “Rivares” directed by Bidzin Chkheidze
- “Improvisation” by Nino Lapiashvili