Rezo Gabriadze Puppet Theater (Tbilisi, Georgia)

If you go to Tbilisi, be sure to look Rezo Gabriadze Puppet Theater.
(Shavteli St., 26, Tbilisi 0105, Georgia)

Revaz “Rezo” Gabriadze has worked as a theater and film director, playwright, writer, painter, and graphic artist. His made 35 screenplays the Soviet classics Don’t Grieve, Mimino, and Kin-Dza-Dza. All films have ratings above 8.1 on IMDb.

Gabriadze was born in Kutaisi. In what was then Soviet Georgia. He had lived his whole life under Soviet rule, and the lack of intellectual freedom was a continual hindrance to his artistic expression. Puppets became a surreptitious way to achieve a greater degree of artistic independence and a way to tell dramatic stories without drawing too much attention from his more authoritarian critics.

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