As Director, As Writer
26 Commissioners
1932
3.2
Nikoloz Shengelaia
Acting
Born
August 8, 1903
Place of Birth
Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Deceased
January 4, 1943
Biography
Nikoloz Shengelaia was a Soviet Georgian film director. Nikoloz Shengelaia was one of the founders of Georgian cinema. His epic 1928 silent film “Eliso” is about the exile of Circassian and Chechen people and the colonization of their land in the Caucasus Mountains by imperial Russia.
