Nikoloz Shengelaia
Writing
August 8, 1903
Died at age 39
January 4, 1943
Date of Death
Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
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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.
