Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Born
August 8, 1903
Died
January 4, 1943 (age 39)
Place of Birth
Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Also Known As
Николай Шенгелая
Nikolay Shengelaya
ნიკოლოზ მიხეილის ძე შენგელაია
Nikoloz Shengelaya
Nicholas Shengelia
Nikoloz Shengelaia
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.
