Perestiani, Ivan Nikolaevich

Ivan Perestiani was born on April 13, 1870 in Taganrog in the family of Nikolai Perestiani, a college assessor who served at the customs and Taganrog branch of the state bank ^[3] .

Since 1886, he performed on the stage of the Taganrog Theater under the pseudonym “Ivan Nevedomov” ^[4] , and subsequently worked as an actor and director in several traveling provincial theaters. In 1916 , already having 30 years of theatrical experience, he was invited by the director to the Moscow Aquarium Theater. In the same year he made his film debut with Eugene Bauer .

February 16, 1916 is a memorable day in my life. This is the day I first appeared in front of a movie camera as an actor. I vaguely remember the excitement and fear that gripped me on the morning of this memorable day, and many of the heavy thoughts that tormented me all the first half of the day until the start of the shooting, which, as I understood later, was another breakdown of my acting qualities ... ^[5]

Soon, Perestiani, continuing to act, tries himself as a screenwriter and director of silent films. In the summer of 1917, in the Crimea and Sochi, he put on for the Biofilm studio several paintings that were shot in interiors already in Moscow, and subsequently put on dozens of films for private studios. He receives an invitation from the Swedish film studio Efa, however, inspired by revolutionary transformations, he remains in Russia and begins to put on campaign films.

In 1920, Perestiani left for Georgia , where he made the first ever Georgian film “ Arsen Giorgiashvili ” (“The Assassination of General Gryaznov”), in which he also played one of the secondary roles, and taught at a training studio for young filmmakers. In 1923, he began work on the famous film Red Devils , which became one of the most famous and often cited works of Soviet silent adventure films. Subsequently, Perestiani also staged several sequels of this film - “ Crime of Princess Shirvan ”, “ Punishment of Princess Shirvan ”, “ Illan Dilly ” and “ Savur-Grave ” (all - 1926 ).

In 1928, Perestiani was invited to work as a director at the Odessa film studio VUFKU, in 1929 he switched to the film studio "Armenkino". Since 1932, he has been an actor and teacher at the Tbilisi Theater Institute and the School of Film Actor at the Tbilisi Film Studio, a consultant to the screenwriting department. During this period, he also starred in several films of Yerevan and Tbilisi film studios.

In 1949 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Georgian SSR.

Ivan Perestiani died on May 14, 1959 in Moscow. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery .

In 1962, the publishing house "Art" published a book of memoirs by Ivan Perestiani "75 years of life in art."

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (04/14/1944)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (02/01/1939)

Actor

• 1916 - Only what is lost forever - Victor Murov
• 1916 - Retribution - Count Zapolsky
• 1916 - Vulture of the old fighter - Carlo de Milano, a former fighter
• 1916 - Life for Life - Zhurov, a businessman
• 1916 - Life conquered by death - Alexey
• 1916 - Sorceress - Kazimir Tysnyansky, count forest ranger
• 1916 - Oh, if I could express it in sounds ... - Baron, Anna's husband
• 1916 - Oh women ... - Virginie's husband
• 1916 - The Tale of the Blue Sea - Paul
• 1916 - Love Tornado - Moulder Philip
• 1916 - Dying Swan - Glinsky's friend
• 1916 - The Human Abyss - Engineer Nemov
• 1916 - Chess of Life
• 1916 - Coachman, do not drive horses - Pyotr Nikolaevich Zabrodin, provincial landowner
• 1917 - Enchanted Circle - Zapolsky
• 1917 - When the Lilac Blossoms - Caspar
• 1917 - The Duel of Love
• 1917 - Portrait of the Minister
• 1917 - Crucified on the Cross of Love - Opalov, sworn attorney
• 1917 - Revolutionary - "grandfather", an old revolutionary
• 1918 - 37th number of the hard labor prison - Nikolay Skarbedzhi, 37th number of the hard labor prison
• 1918 - Case of the landowner Brodov
• 1918 - Eve - Plato, brother of Leonid, writer
• 1918 - Evening Victim - Shakhalov
• 1918 - The Oath of the Soldered - Muzo Calabrezi, father of Neri
• 1918 - Love ... hate ... death ... - Ned Smith, factory manager
• 1918 - A golden cloud slept - Pasekin, the owner of the estate
• 1918 - The Shame of the Orlov House
• 1918 - The Tale of the Spring Wind - Pyotr Nikolaevich Shelestov, writer
• 1918 - Honest Word
• 1919 - Father and son (short) - peasant
• 1919 - Sister Decembrist - Prince Andrew, Decembrist
• 1920 - Hveska - Doctor
• 1921 - Arsen Georgiashvili - Vorontsov-Dashkov
• 1923 - Man to Man Wolf - Carter, Detective
• 1924 - Three Lives
• 1928 - Avalanche - Ivan Chistyakov, professor of geology
• 1930 - Under the Black Wing - General
• 1937 - Arsen - Baron Rosen
• 1938 - The Great Glow - General
• 1941 - Sabuhi - Vorontsov
• 1942 - George Saakadze - Russian Ambassador
• 1943 - David Beck - Pope's Messenger
• 1946 - David Guramishvili - Volynsky
• 1947 - Cradle of the poet - director of the gymnasium

Director

• 1917 - Goats ... goats ... goats ...
• 1917 - Again at home
• 1917 - Portrait of the Minister
• 1917 - Adventures of the Stetsury
• 1918 - 37th number of the hard labor prison
• 1918 - Evening Victim
• 1918 - The Oath of the Soldered
• 1918 - Love ... hate ... death ...
• 1918 - A golden cloud slept
• 1918 - Dance of sorrow and bustle
• 1918 - Honest Word
• 1919 - Two Hussars
• 1919 - Father and Son (Short)
• 1919 - Sister Decembrist
• 1920 - In the days of the struggle (short)
• 1920 - For what? (film, 1920)
• 1921 - Arsen Giorgiashvili
• 1922 - Suram Fortress
• 1923 - Red Devils
• 1923 - Man to Man Wolf
• 1924 - Three Lives
• 1925 - The Case of Tariel Mklavadze
• 1926 - Illan Dilly
• 1926 - Punishment of Princess Shirvan
• 1926 - Crime of Princess Shirvan
• 1926 - Savur Grave
• 1927 - In the quagmire
• 1927 - Two-legged
• 1928 - Avalanche
• 1928 - Gossip
• 1929 - Zamallu
• 1929 - Scandal?
• 1929 - The Sun at the Turn
• 1930 - Anush
• 1932 - Loafer
• 1933 - Light and Shadows
• 1937 - Two Friends (Short)

Screenwriter

• 1916 - Vulture of the old fighter
• 1917 - When the Lilac Blossoms
• 1917 - Goats ... goats ... goats ...
• 1917 - Portrait of the Minister
• 1917 - Adventures of the Stetsury
• 1917 - Revolutionary
• 1918 - 37th number of the hard labor prison
• 1918 - Eve
• 1918 - The Oath of the Soldered
• 1918 - A golden cloud slept
• 1918 - Honest Word
• 1919 - The Fugitive (short)
• 1919 - Sister Decembrist
• 1920 - In the days of the struggle (short)
• 1920 - For what?
• 1921 - Arsen Giorgiashvili
• 1922 - Suram Fortress
• 1923 - Red Devils
• 1926 - Punishment of Princess Shirvan
• 1926 - Crime of Princess Shirvan
• 1926 - Savur Grave
• 1927 - Two-legged
• 1928 - Avalanche
• 1929 - Zamallu
• 1929 - The Sun at the Turn
• 1930 - Anush
• 1937 - Two Friends (Short)
• 1941 - Outpost (short)
• 1943 - Guardsman Wife (Short)

• A selection of excerpts from publications about Ivan Perestiani on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema" (inaccessible link)