Goderdzi Chokheli

Who was Goderdzi Chokheli?

Goderdzi Chokheli was a Georgian novelist, scriptwriter, and film director.

Born in the village Chokhi in then-Soviet Georgia, he graduated from Tbilisi State Theatre Institute in 1979, and debuted in cinema in 1978. Some of his most successful films are The Resurrection, Human Sadness, Easter Lamb, The Children of Sin, The Birds of Paradise, The Gospel According to Luke, and The Chained Knights.

He also authored several novellas and collections of stories such as Letter to Fir-trees, Twilight Gorge, People Melancholy, Wolf, Fish's Letters, Priest’s Sin, Keep me Motherland, Pursuer Fate, Going to Heaven, and The Life of the Grass.