Nikoloz Shengelaia

Known for

Writing

Gender

Male

Born

August 8, 1903

Age at death

39

Died

January 4, 1943

From

Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

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.