Nikoloz Shengelaia

1903 - 1943
Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Actor
Director
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.