Director
Born 1933, USSR
 
 
Eldar SHENGELAIA
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Эльдар Николаевич ШЕНГЕЛАЯ
Eldar CHENGUELAIA
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2015 - Caucasian Trio (Кавказское трио) [fiction, 81 mn]
1994 - Ekspress-Informatsiya (Экспресс-Информация) [fiction, 105 mn]
1984 - Blue Mountains, or an Improbable Story (Голубые горы или неправдоподобная история) [fiction, 97 mn]
1978 - Machera Samanishvili (Мачеха Саманишвили) [fiction, 89 mn]
1974 - The Eccentrics (Чудаки) [fiction, 79 mn]
1968 - An Unusual Exhibition (Необыкновенная выставка) [fiction, 95 mn]
1964 - Belyy karavan (Белый караван) [fiction, 93 mn]
1960 - Snezhnaya skazka (Снежная сказка) [fiction, 68 mn]
1957 - The Legend of the Icy Heart (Легенда о ледяном сердце) [fiction, 75 mn]
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Awards :
Blue Mountains, or an Improbable Story :
Premier prix au Festival de l'Union soviétique, 1984

Biography
Father - director Nikolai Shengelaya, mother - actress Nato Vachnadze.
Brother - director Georgiy Shengelaya.
Graduated from VGIK.
People's Artist of the Georgian SSR.
People's Artist of the USSR (1988)
In 1958-1960 - director of the Mosfilm film studio, since 1960 - of the Georgia-Film studio. Heads the directing workshop of the Tbilisi Theatre Institute named after Sh. Rustaveli. Since 1976 - 1st Secretary of the Board of the Union of Cinematographers of Georgia and Secretary of the Board of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR.
 

Commentaries
- Beyond the canon: Soviet cinema 2024,
- 10 great Georgian films 2022, bfi.org.uk