Director: Eldar Shengelaia

Birthday: 1933-01-26
Born in: Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgian SSR, ZSFSR, USSR
Biography: Eldar Shengelaia is a Georgian and Soviet film director and screenwriter who directed ten films between 1957 and 1996. From 1990 to 2004, he was a member of the Parliament of Georgia. He has been awarded the titles of the People's Artist of Georgia and of the Soviet Union.

Known for

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.

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7.4

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story

1983

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An Unusual Exhibition

The war is over. Once a young sculptor, and now a soldier, he returned home. Married, there were children. In search of work, he was hired to make grave monuments. Time passed... At one time, visiting a cemetery with friends, he saw with different eyes all his work done over the years...

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4.4

An Unusual Exhibition

1968

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The Eccentrics

Surrealistic movie about prisoners who invent flying apparatus.

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6.8

The Eccentrics

1974

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A Snow Fairy Tale

New Year's Eve. The boy Mitya, who loves to fantasize, jokingly tells his comrades at school that his children's toy watch with painted hands is magical and can stop all the clocks in the world, stop time, or even revive a snowman.

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7.0

A Snow Fairy Tale

1960

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Samanishvili's Stepmother

Impoverished old nobleman Bekina insists on marrying a wife, but his son Platon does not want to have sharer in father's inheritance. Platon finds two times widowed and childless bride for Bekina, but a fate makes fun of him.

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3.9

Samanishvili's Stepmother

1977

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