Eldar Shengelaia

The Chair (2017)

After the defeat in elections, Refugees Eviction Minister, Giorgi Mchedlishvili, loses everything that is dear to him: the office, the car, the source of income and most importantly - power. Giorgi's chair, which is a live being, motivates former Minister ...

The Caucasus Trio (2016)

Express Information (1994)

Tragicomic understanding of life, global irony about the total falsehood and general degradation of the communist society. The last days of the passing time. ...

Blue Mountains, or an Unbelievable Story (1983)

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. ...

Samanishvili's Stepmother (1977)

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. ...

The Eccentrics (1974)

Ertaoz travels to the city with the intent to sell a chicken and pay off his father's debts. Upon arrival, he falls for the beautiful Margalita and decides to help her dispose of her ex-lover's body. However, at the cemetery, the lover–a policeman–unex ...

An Unusual Exhibition (1968)

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 ...

Mikela (1965)

Soviet Georgian film by Eldar Shengelaia. Based on short story by D. ...

The White Caravan (1964)

A young shepherd abandons his family's traditional way of life, as well as his young love, when he succumbs to the allure of urban living. ...

A Snow Fairy Tale (1960)

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. ...

The Legend of the Icy Heart (1958)

In this fantasy film inspired by a Kirghiz fairy-tale and Wilhelm Hauff's "Das kalte Herz," a powerful sorcerer puts a spell on a beautiful dancer, rendering her incapable of love until an infatuated shovel operator comes along. ...