Nikoloz Shengelaia
- Born
- 8 August 1903 (39 years old)
- Passed away
- 4 January 1943
- Place of birth
- Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
- Gender
- Male
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.
