Video: Look for a woman: the zigzags of fate of the most popular Georgian woman in Soviet cinema, Sofiko Chiaureli
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
May 21 famous Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli would have turned 86 years old, but in 2008 she passed away. They say that none of the actresses of the Soviet cinema has had so many awards. She was adored both in Georgia and abroad, Sergei Parajanov called her his muse. According to legend, Georgian girls still have a prayer in which they ask: "Lord, give me a happy life and make me as beautiful as Sofiko Chiaureli!" However, her whole life was covered with legends.
She was born into the family of the famous director Mikhail Chiaureli and the famous actress Veriko Anjaparidze, her father was from simple peasants, and her mother was from an old Kutaisi princely family. Their father built their house on Mount Razdumiy - where he first kissed his wife. Sofiko had 2 brothers, both became directors, and both passed away, by some mystical coincidence, at 49 years old.
During the war, the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater was evacuated in Tbilisi, and Nemirovich-Danchenko and Knipper-Chekhova often visited their house. Sofiko got used to the creative atmosphere of theatrical gatherings since childhood, and her future fate was predetermined.
Father Sofiko knew several languages, sang well, played various musical instruments and was considered almost the best toastmaster in Georgia. Therefore, he was invited to all the Kremlin parties - Mikhail Chiaureli was Stalin's favorite. He himself unconditionally believed in the leader and made three films about him. But Veriko did not share her husband's love for Stalin - many of her friends were repressed, she herself was once taken off the train and was going to be arrested, but her husband's name saved her. After Stalin's death, Khrushchev exiled Chiaureli to Sverdlovsk, later they were able to return to Tbilisi, but Mikhail was no longer allowed to film.
In 1955, Sofiko entered VGIK, where Leonid Kuravlev and Svetlana Druzhinina became her classmates. The actress always remembered these years with special warmth: “Because she was young, because she loved, met interesting people. In Moscow lived and live, thank God, several relatives, the most famous of which is Georgy Danelia, my cousin. Nothing darkened life, not even a periodically emptied wallet. I knew how to cook, using any available food, and in the institute's buffet then they gave free tea with sugar, bread and mustard, so that we were not threatened with death from hunger."
As a student, Sofiko married director Georgy Shengelaya, with whom she was in love since the age of 16. After graduation, they returned to Georgia together - he made films, she played in the theater and in the cinema. Their family union was very strong, and for many it came as a complete surprise when it suddenly broke up after more than 20 years. And the reason was Sofiko's new love - actor and sports commentator Kote Makharadze. Both were over 40, both were tied by marriage, but during joint rehearsals they suddenly realized that they could not spend another day without each other.
At first, they hid everything and even came up with their own code: during football reports, Kote conveyed messages to his beloved only she could understand, telling the place and time of the next meeting. Later he recalled: “Yes, I knew Sofiko for 25 years, I always liked her. And then, when we were rehearsing the lovers, my head just blew off. I needed to see Sofiko every day, otherwise I just felt bad. They lived together for 20 years and were very happy.
Sofiko Chiaureli has performed more than 100 roles in theater and cinema, many directors spoke with admiration of her. Sergei Parajanov called her "his divine film dancer." The most famous role of the actress was the image of an extravagant secretary in the film "Look for a Woman". Before filming, Sofiko could not come to Moscow for screen tests, and then director Alla Surikova, along with the film crew, went to Tbilisi herself. Like all Georgians, Sofiko was very hospitable. All 4 days, the guests did not get up from the table. The fact that they never had a screen test was remembered only after they returned to Moscow.
In 2002, Kote Makharadze died. Once, during a football match at a stadium in Tbilisi, all the floodlights suddenly went out, a sports commentator considered this a national shame and was so worried that he suffered a stroke on the same night. When he was gone, life ended for Sofiko. After a serious cancer, she passed away in 2008.
Sofiko Chiaureli has always been one of the Soviet celebrities who enjoyed popular love, and it would be so, even if she played only one film - "Look for a Woman".
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