Театральный институт имени Бориса Щукина
He was born in Moscow as the son of film director Josef Tumanishvili, who was also the chief of Moscow Operetta Theatre and the Bolshoi Theatre. Tumanishvili graduated from the actors faculty of Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and the musical direction department of Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. He worked as a stage director in Pushkin Theatre and started making films in 1981. Tumanishvili was the head director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.