Askhab Abakarov

Askhab Abakarov is a Soviet actor, artist, director, screenwriter. In 1969 he graduated from LGITMiK. He worked as a fashion designer. Costume designer and production designer on Tengiz Abuladze's films A Necklace for My Beloved (1971), The Wishing Tree (1976). In 1979 he graduated from the film directing department of the Tbilisi Theater Institute of Theater Arts named after Shota Rustaveli, workshop of Tengiz Abuladze. Askhab Abakarov acted in films. He is best known for his role as artist Perkins in the adventure film Priklyucheniya printsa Florizelya (1979). Filmed like a director. In 1985, at the Lenfilm studio he began work on the historical-romantic drama Skazaniye o khrabrom Khochbare (1988) - an adaptation of the poem by Rasul Gamzatov. However, he did not have time to complete the work.