[1] In 1984, he played dual main part in the famous film by Tengiz Abuladze Repentance (those of Varlam and Abel Aravidze).
[2] The same year, at the Chicago Film Festival, he received Silver Hugo Award for the best male performance.
In 1989, he starred alongside Isabelle Huppert, Bernard Blier, Erland Josephson, Richard Berry and Miki Manojlovic in Aleksandar Petrović's last film Migrations.
[3] In 1991, Makharadze played the main role in the film of Mikheil Kalatozishvili'sThe Beloved.
[5] Makharadze played Joseph Stalin in the 2005 BBC TV series Archangel, starring opposite Daniel Craig.