Nikoloz Shengelaia

Writer, Director, Actor

August 8, 1903 — January 4, 1943 (39 years)
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.

Known For

  • Eliso
    Eliso1928
  • 26 Commissioners
    26 Commissioners1933
  • Giuli
    Giuli1927
  • The Orange Valley
    The Orange Valley1937
  • Samanishvili's Stepmother
    Samanishvili's Stepmother1926

Filmography

1937
1932
Twenty-Six Commissars · as Screenplay
1928
1927
Giuli · as Screenplay
1926

1940
1931
Golden Mountains · as One From Baku