Biografia

6 de outubro de 1900 · Kutaisi, Russian Empire [now Republic of Georgia]

31 de janeiro de 1987 · Tbilisi, SSR da Geórgia, URSS [agora República da Geórgia] (não revelado)

Veriko Ivlianovna Andzhaparidze

Mother of Sofiko Chiaureli who idolized Sergei Parajanov; both Veriko and Sofiko star in Parajanov's A Lenda da Fortaleza Suram (1985). Sofiko also stared in Parajanov's A Cor da Romã (1969), O Trovador Kerib (1988) and the unfinished "Confession" which survives in its original negative in Mikhail Vartanov's Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992).

Queen of Soviet theater. Although Veriko (she was always called by first name) acted in dozens of films, she did not achieve the level of success of Nato Vachnadze, but she was first on the stage, from her 20s until her death. Her in from Arrependimento Sem Perdão (1984) by Tengiz Abuladze became a cult favorite. "Is this way to the temple?" her character asks a victim of the Soviet regime. These words were later taken as a motto of "perestroika".