Nikoloz Shengelaia
Writing
Birthday
1903/08/08
Day of death
1943/01/04 (39 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Also know as
Николай Шенгелая, Nikolay Shengelaya, ნიკოლოზ მიხეილის ძე შენგელაია, Nikoloz Shengelaya
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.
