Nikoloz Shengelaia

Date of birth

08 Aug 1903

124 years ago at Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

Also Known As

Николай Шенгелая
Nikolay Shengelaya
ნიკოლოზ მიხეილის ძე შენგელაია
Nikoloz Shengelaya
Nicholas Shengelia

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.

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