The Living Corpse
Although several versions of her discovery for the film exist, the most popular and likely is that the film director Shakro Berishvili noticed her photography in a photo studio in Tbilisi. He managed to find her in Kakheti and convinced to play in her first film, the 1923 adventure film "Arsen the Bandit". The role of Nunu in the 1923 film "Patricide" and the role of Esma in the 1924 film "Three Lives" made her famous not only in the Georgian Union Republic, but all over the Soviet Union. In these films her screen character was that of an Ingénue, an innocent and passionate young woman. The theater and film director Kote Marjanishvili gave Vachnadze two challenging roles in the experimental films "The Gadfly" and "Amok" adapted from novels by Ethel Voynich and Stefan Zweig. By now not only a national, but also an international star she played the gypsy woman Masha in the German-Soviet film "The Living Corpse", adapted from the Leo Tolstoy play "The Living Corpse".