Eldar Shengelaia

Eldar Shengelaia, born in Tbilisi in 1933, the son of the filmmaker Nikoloz Shengelaia and the actress Nato Vachnadze, lost his father at the age of ten and his mother in a plane crash in 1953. A graduate of the Moscow film school in 1958, he worked first at Mosfilm and then, from 1960, at the Tbilisi studio, whose filmmakers' union he chaired from 1976. Made People's Artist of the Union in 1988, and a member of the Georgian parliament from 1990 to 2004, he died in August 2025.

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• Cinemaთეთრი ქარავანიEldar Shengelaia · 1963Cinema