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Eliso
Eliso
Directed by	Nikoloz Shengelaia
Written by	Aleksandre Kazbegi (novel); Nikoloz Shengelaia; Sergei Tretyakov;
Cinematography	Vladimer Kereselidze
Music by	Iona Tuskia
Production; company	Sovkino
Release date	23 October 1928;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent ; Georgian and Russian intertitles

Eliso is a 1928 Soviet silent adventure film directed by Nikoloz Shengelaia and loosely based on the short story by Alexander Kazbegi.^[1]^[2]^[3] It was made in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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 19th 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 at night into the village, which is already inhabited by the Cossacks, and sets fire to it.

Cast

Aleksandre Imedashvili as Astamur
Kokhta Karalashvili as Vajia
Kira Andronikashvili as Eliso
I. Mamporya as Seidulla
Tsetsilia Tsutsunava as Zazubika
Aleksandre Jorjoliani as General
K. Gurianov as Billeting officer
I. Galkin as Village constable
Marika Chimishkian as Muslimati

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.^[2] In a 2012 poll of film critics by Tbilisi Intermedia, Eliso was listed first among the 12 best films of Georgian cinema.^[4]

References

↑ Christie & Taylor p.428
1 2 Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 273.
↑ "Колония певчих дроздов". Kommersant.
↑ Gvelesiani, Salome (18 June 2012). "ყველა დროის საუკეთესო ქართული ფილმები" [The Best Georgian Films of All Time]. Tbiliselebi (in Georgian). Archived from the original on 18 January 2017.

Bibliography

Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.

External links

Eliso at IMDb

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[1] Christie & Taylor p.428

[leyda-2] 1 2 Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 273.

[3] "Колония певчих дроздов". Kommersant.

[4] Gvelesiani, Salome (18 June 2012). "ყველა დროის საუკეთესო ქართული ფილმები" [The Best Georgian Films of All Time]. Tbiliselebi (in Georgian). Archived from the original on 18 January 2017.

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