Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Known Credits
18
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-08-08
Day of Death
1943-01-04 (40 years old)
Place of Birth
Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Also Known As
Николай Шенгелая
Nikolay Shengelaya
ნიკოლოზ მიხეილის ძე შენგელაია
Nikoloz Shengelaya
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.
