Nikoloz Shengelaia

Born

1903-08-08

Died

1943-01-04

Birthplace

Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

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.