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Nikolay Shengelaya
Николос Шенгелая
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19 August 1903 - 4 January 1943
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Shengelaya Soviet film director and film dramatist Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1935) was born in Obuja Mingrelia. He wrote poetry in his youth. From 1924 to the movies. His first directorial work was Gully (1927 with L. F. Pusch). In the 20s he listened to a course of lectures by L. V. Kuleshov. The film “Eliso” created by Sh. in 1928 (based on the story of A. Kazbegi) is the largest work of Soviet silent cinema, where the poeticity of the epic and historical authenticity organically
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Shengelaya Soviet film director and film dramatist Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1935) was born in Obuja Mingrelia. He wrote poetry in his youth. From 1924 to the movies. His first directorial work was Gully (1927 with L. F. Pusch). In the 20s he listened to a course of lectures by L. V. Kuleshov. The film “Eliso” created by Sh. in 1928 (based on the story of A. Kazbegi) is the largest work of Soviet silent cinema, where the poeticity of the epic and historical authenticity organically merged. The glorious and tragic days of the Baku Commune are dedicated to the film "Twenty-Six Commissars" (1933) - an innovative work of Soviet cinema. In 1937 he directed the film Golden Valley. He was the author and co-author of a number of scripts of his paintings. State Prize of the USSR (1941). He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.