Eduard Shevardnadze
Actor
- Born
- January 25, 1928
- Died
- July 7, 2014 (age 86)
Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე, Eduard Ambrosis dze Ševardnadze; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Georgian politician and diplomat. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (GPC), the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Shevardnadze was responsible for many key decisions in Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev Era including reunification of Germany. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was President of Georgia (or in equivalent posts) from 1992 to 2003. He was forced to retire in 2003 as a consequence of the bloodless Rose Revolution. (wiki)
Known for
Acting7
- 2012Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende as Self
- 2011The Last Days of the USSR as Self
- 2011He Came to Give Us Freedom
- 2010Russian Lessons as Self
- 2009განგსტერული საქართველო as Self
- 1999When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World as Self
- TBAAn Incomplete Day in the History of Georgia 10.06.93 as Self