Natalia "Nato" Vachnadze (Georgian: ნრტáƒ
ვრჩნრძáƒ"), born Natalia Andronikashvili (Georgian:
ნრტრრნáƒ"რრნიკრშვილი)[A], (14 June
1904 â€" 14 June 1953) was a Georgian film actress. She started her
career in the silent film era, usually playing the screen character of
an Ingénue, an innocent and passionate young woman. She continued to
work as an actress during the sound era until her death in a plane
crash in 1953. One of the first film stars of the Soviet Union she
received numerous honors, including the title of People's Artist of
the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Stalin prize.Nato
Vachnadze was born in Warsaw, then in the Russian Empire as the
daughter of a Georgian father George Andronikov from the
Andronikashvili family and a Polish mother Ekaterina Slivitskaya. Her
father, an officer in the Russian army, was killed in a skirmish with
a band of Chechen outlaws (abrek) in 1912. She adopted her last name
from her first marriage to Merab Vachnadze, with whom she had a son,
Tengiz Vachnadze (born 1926), the future architect. Her second
marriage was with the film director Nikoloz Shengelaia, with whom she
had two sons, the film directors Giorgi Shengelaya and Eldar
Shengelaya. Her third marriage was with the Soviet navy captain
Anatoli Kacharava (1910â€"1982). Nato Vachnadze's younger sister, Kira
(1908â€"1960), also became an actress and married the writer Boris
Pilnyak.Although several versions of her discovery for the film exist,
the most popular and likely is that the film director Shakro
Berishvili noticed her photography in a photo studio in Tbilisi. He
managed to find her in Kakheti and convinced to play in her first
film, the 1923 adventure film Arsen the Bandit. The role of Nunu in
the 1923 film Patricide and the role of Esma in the 1924 film Three
Lives made her famous not only in the Georgian Union Republic, but all
over the Soviet Union. In these films her screen character was that of
an Ingénue, an innocent and passionate young woman. The theater and
film director Kote Marjanishvili gave Vachnadze two challenging roles
in the experimental films The Gadfly and Amok adapted from novels by
Ethel Voynich and Stefan Zweig. By now not only a national, but also
an international star she played the gypsy woman Masha in the
German-Soviet film The Living Corpse, adapted from the Leo Tolstoy
play The Living Corpse.
ვრჩნრძáƒ"), born Natalia Andronikashvili (Georgian:
ნრტრრნáƒ"რრნიკრშვილი)[A], (14 June
1904 â€" 14 June 1953) was a Georgian film actress. She started her
career in the silent film era, usually playing the screen character of
an Ingénue, an innocent and passionate young woman. She continued to
work as an actress during the sound era until her death in a plane
crash in 1953. One of the first film stars of the Soviet Union she
received numerous honors, including the title of People's Artist of
the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Stalin prize.Nato
Vachnadze was born in Warsaw, then in the Russian Empire as the
daughter of a Georgian father George Andronikov from the
Andronikashvili family and a Polish mother Ekaterina Slivitskaya. Her
father, an officer in the Russian army, was killed in a skirmish with
a band of Chechen outlaws (abrek) in 1912. She adopted her last name
from her first marriage to Merab Vachnadze, with whom she had a son,
Tengiz Vachnadze (born 1926), the future architect. Her second
marriage was with the film director Nikoloz Shengelaia, with whom she
had two sons, the film directors Giorgi Shengelaya and Eldar
Shengelaya. Her third marriage was with the Soviet navy captain
Anatoli Kacharava (1910â€"1982). Nato Vachnadze's younger sister, Kira
(1908â€"1960), also became an actress and married the writer Boris
Pilnyak.Although several versions of her discovery for the film exist,
the most popular and likely is that the film director Shakro
Berishvili noticed her photography in a photo studio in Tbilisi. He
managed to find her in Kakheti and convinced to play in her first
film, the 1923 adventure film Arsen the Bandit. The role of Nunu in
the 1923 film Patricide and the role of Esma in the 1924 film Three
Lives made her famous not only in the Georgian Union Republic, but all
over the Soviet Union. In these films her screen character was that of
an Ingénue, an innocent and passionate young woman. The theater and
film director Kote Marjanishvili gave Vachnadze two challenging roles
in the experimental films The Gadfly and Amok adapted from novels by
Ethel Voynich and Stefan Zweig. By now not only a national, but also
an international star she played the gypsy woman Masha in the
German-Soviet film The Living Corpse, adapted from the Leo Tolstoy
play The Living Corpse.
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