Filmowe Tbilisi, Moskwa i Warszawa we wspomnieniach Heleny Amiradżibi-Stawińskiej

Amiradżibi-Stawińska (1932–2017), a director born in Tbilisi, was educated in Moscow Film Institute. She came to Poland with her first husband, Jerzy Ziarnik, where she made a dozen or so documentaries and feature films. However, she reached the peak of her career when she was married to her second husband – a screenwriter and director, Jerzy Stefan Stawiński. In Poland, Amiradżi-bi-Stawińska published three memoirs: Słodkie życie księżniczki (1996), Książka antykucharska(2007) and Moja filmowa Moskwa. Białym pociągiem dookoła wódki... i nie tylko (2011), where we can find many interesting comments on life in Georgia, Russia and Poland in the 30s–70s in the 20thcentury. The text concentrates on the subject of film that is present in all her books, which shows cultural relationships and habits of the artistic circles in those years and in each of the three coun-tries. In the memoirs we can see the director’s artistic path against the background of the turbulent events of the 20th century; they are also a source of information about important figures in the film industry in Georgia, Russia and Poland.