Nikoloz Shengelaia
personal-info
known-for
Writing
gender
Male
birthday
1903-08-08
place-of-birth
Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
also-known-as
Николай Шенгелая
Nikolay Shengelaya
ნიკოლოზ მიხეილის ძე შენგელაია
Nikoloz Shengelaya
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.