Nikoloz Shengelaia

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Nikoloz Shengelaia

Born 1903-08-08 · Obuji, Kutaiskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

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.

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Behind the camera

The Orange Valley poster
8.0

The enemy of the collective farm movement, Kirile, with his advice, confuses the chairman of the collective farm “Orange Valley”, Tedo, who believes in his support. He tries to turn Tedo and Giorgi, who has recently returned from the civil service into enemies.

The Orange Valley

1937

The Orange Valley poster
8.0

The enemy of the collective farm movement, Kirile, with his advice, confuses the chairman of the collective farm “Orange Valley”, Tedo, who believes in his support. He tries to turn Tedo and Giorgi, who has recently returned from the civil service into enemies.

The Orange Valley

1937

Samanishvili's Stepmother poster
6.0

A poor nobleman, Platon Samanishvili, has a big family. One day, his long-time widowed father, Bekina, tells him that he'd like to remarry. Platon has a problem now: if his father gets a child, he has to share his already small land property.

Samanishvili's Stepmother

1926

26 Commissioners poster
4.2

Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.

26 Commissioners

1933

26 Commissioners poster
4.2

Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.

26 Commissioners

1933

Wasting poster
9.0

The novice writer Vasil Safonov and his friend, the cashier Apollon Kazachkov, become regular guests at the local casino. Their gambling habits lead them to unwittingly squander state funds. Initially, Kazachkov manages to return the wasted money, but his passion for gambling consumes him, and he loses every penny. This leads to his arrest, leaving Safonov in a desperate situation. Soviet youth, including Muscovite Reztsov and the Komsomol girl Marusya Kostova, come together to help Safonov find his way back on the right path.

Wasting

1928

No artwork available
9.0

A Georgian warrior witnesses the heroic death of a local communist girl in the battle for one of the Russian villages. The wounded warrior returns to his native village, but thinking about the girl does not give him rest, and his photography becomes the cause of misunderstanding with his bride.

He Will Come Back Again

1943

Homeland poster
NR

Working peasants Sardioni and Yagora are friends. Yagora and fellow villagers do not know that Sardion is a foreign intelligence agent. Yagora's son, Nodar, who fled abroad during the civil war, will perform the task of foreign intelligence and sneak saboteurs into his homeland under the guidance of Sardion. Persecuted by the border guards, Nodar takes refuge in his father's house. Yagora will condemn her son's behavior and support his arrest.

Homeland

1940

Homeland poster
NR

Working peasants Sardioni and Yagora are friends. Yagora and fellow villagers do not know that Sardion is a foreign intelligence agent. Yagora's son, Nodar, who fled abroad during the civil war, will perform the task of foreign intelligence and sneak saboteurs into his homeland under the guidance of Sardion. Persecuted by the border guards, Nodar takes refuge in his father's house. Yagora will condemn her son's behavior and support his arrest.

Homeland

1940

Eliso poster
6.0

Georgia, 1864. The Tsarist regime is using Cossacks to forcibly resettle Muslim Georgians to Turkey in order to steal their land. Meanwhile a Muslim girl falls in love with a Christian from the next village.

Eliso

1929

Giuli poster
5.7

A pretty young Azeri woman Giuli and Georgian guy Mitro are very in love. But because of traditions she can not marry him. Young people run away to get happy together, but without success.

Giuli

1927

Giuli poster
5.7

A pretty young Azeri woman Giuli and Georgian guy Mitro are very in love. But because of traditions she can not marry him. Young people run away to get happy together, but without success.

Giuli

1927

No artwork available
NR

In the distant mountains, in a Serbian village, the occupiers are robbing the population and shooting the rebels. The villagers flee into the forest and form a partisan detachment. The detachment mines the road so that the punitive detachment cannot reach the village. But the partisans do not have Bickford's belt. The bomber faces inevitable death. Young Marko undertakes this task.

In The Black Mountains

1941