Eldar Shengelaia
Eldar Schengelaia (Georgian ელდარ შენგელაია; * January 26, 1933 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian film producer and politician ( National Movement - Democrats ). From 1995 to 2004 he was Vice President of the Parliament of Georgia.
Life
The son of Nikoloz Schengelaia graduated in 1958 the Faculty of film production of cinematographic Institute Moscow. From 1957 to 1960 he worked for the Mosfilm Studios. There, his first film, a fairytale by Wilhelm Hauff, Legenda o ledjanom serdze (Eng. The Tale of the cold heart) was born.
In 1960 he transferred as a producer of the film studios Kartuli to Tbilisi. He made a name for himself in 1973 with the feature film Scherekilebi (English nerds ). It was about comic codgers, their seemingly unattainable ideas and dreams. The films Tetri karavani (Eng. White caravan, 1963), Arachveulebrivi gamopena (Eng. an unusual exhibition, 1968) and Tsisperi mtebi anu arachveulebrivi ambavi (German Blue Mountains or An unlikely story, 1984) were also released in Germany. Later Schengelaia a professor at the Georgian film school newly founded.
1976 to 1991, he was First Secretary of the cinematograph - union, from 1991, its chairman. 1980 to 1985 and he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR, from 1989 to 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
As Georgia became independent, he was a Member of Parliament from 1990 to 1992, occurred after the coup against President Zviad Gamsakhurdia in 1992 in the Georgian government, the State Council, and was until 1995 Chairman of the Cultural Commission. Since 1995 he has been a Member of Parliament. He is a member of the Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science, Culture and Sport. Until 2004 he was a Vice President of the Parliament.
1993 Schengelaia co-founder of the Georgian Party Civic Union, the President Eduard Shevardnadze was supported. In 2003, he joined the United Democrats Zurab Zhvania to, supported the Rose Revolution in Georgia in November and coined the term popularized internationally. He now belongs to the National Movement - Democrats, whose leader President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Schengelaia produced many movies, several of which have been awarded to Soviet and international film festivals.
Schengelaia is married and has three daughters: Natalia, Katerina, and Helena. The director Giorgi Schengelaia is his brother.