In Culture
Some details of Beria's appearance and biography were used by Tengiz Abuladze to create a character of dictator Varlam Aravidze for his film Repentance.
Beria is a significant character in the opening chapters of the novel Archangel, written by British novelist Robert Harris.
He is mentioned in the James Bond film The Living Daylights by General Leonid Pushkin (John Rhys-Davies). Pushkin says, "Smert Spionam was a Beria operation in Stalin's time. It was deactivated twenty years ago."
Beria is a character in the 2012 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
In 2012 his alleged personal diary from 1938 to 1953 was published in Russia.
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