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Directed by Nikoloz Shengelaia Release date 23 October 1928 Country Soviet Union Director Nikoloz Shengelaia | 7.4/10 IMDb Music by Iona Tuskia Running time 90 minutes Initial release 23 October 1928 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Aleksandre Kazbegi (novel)
Nikoloz Shengelaia
Sergei Tretyakov Production company State Committee for Cinematography Screenplay Nikoloz Shengelaia, Sergei Tretyakov Similar Fragment of an Empire, The General Line, Strike, Miss Mend, Zvenigora | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eliso is a 1928 Soviet silent adventure film directed by Nikoloz Shengelaia. It was made in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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It was released in the United States in 1929 by Amkino under the alternative title of Caucasian Love.
Plot
The film is set in the XIX century. To consolidate its power in the Caucasus region, the Russian government intends to evict the Chechens from the Russian empire. A cossack Ataman fraudulently obtains signatures from illiterate residents for a petition which calls for resettlement to Turkey, by disguising it as a request for permission to stay on their land to the governor-general of Muslims of the Verdi mountain aul. The daughter of the village elders, Eliso falls in love with Khevsurian Vajia, who is a Christian. He is seeking the abolition of the decree to expel Chechens, but his heroic efforts to save the village are futile. Residents have already been banished from their homes and leave the village. Vajia as a kafir has no right to leave with them out of their homes. Eliso can not accept the fate of an outlaw, she sneaks into the village at night which is already inhabited by the Cossacks, and sets fire to it.
Cast
Reception
Sergei Eisenstein expressed to Ivor Montagu that there were only two good portrayals of the lezginka in film, and that Shengelaya's in Eliso was better than in October: Ten Days That Shook the World, the film he directed.