Writing · Director · Writer · Screenplay
Born Aug 8, 1903 · Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Active 1924–1943 · Awards: Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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…