Iconic Georgian director Otar Ioseliani dies in Paris at the age of 89

Famous Georgian film director, screenwriter and actor Otar Ioseliani died in France at the age of 89. His death was reported by the First Channel of the Public TV channel of Georgia, UNN reports.

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Ioseliani was born in Tbilisi in 1934. He started working in the in the late 1950s. During his career, the director has made more than 20 fiction and documentary films.

Ioseliani's first feature film, November (1966) was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize and the Georges Sadoul Prize for for Best First Feature. This film, in which the protagonist stands up against the connivance of his superiors, was banned in Georgia.

У During his time in the ussr, Ioseliani also made the films A Cockerel Lived (1970) and (1970) and Pastoral (1975).

After the soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the director moved to France, where he lived and where he lived and worked until the end of his life. During this period, he directed such outstanding films as Favorites of the of the Moon (1984), Butterfly Hunt (1992), and others.

Many of his works have won awards at major international film festivals.

Ioseliani has been extremely was very vocal about russia's aggression first against Afghanistan and Chechnya, and then against Georgia in 2008. According to him, russian troops "do not spare women or children, they stop at nothing," they are "just looters and rapists, the army cannot be like that."

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