"Legendary Georgian puppeteer dies," reads the article by BBC dedicated to the death of Rezo Gabriadze.
The British edition singles out the "The Battle of Stalingrad," as well as the scripts of "Mimino" and "Kin-dza-dza."
"Bringing his take on the Battle of Stalingrad to London in 2002, he told BBC News that during Soviet times, he had often identified with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, seeing himself as a castaway from world culture on the desert island of a totalitarian state. But Robinson Crusoe had, he said, shaved off his beard, and the arts in Georgia and the rest of the former USSR were "rejoining the world," BBC writes.
