Writing

Nikoloz Shengelaia

Born 8 August 1903 · Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire · Died 4 January 1943 at 39

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.