# Eliso
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{{Short description|1928 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Eliso
| image = Eliso.jpg
| caption =
| director = [Nikoloz Shengelaia](/source/Nikoloz_Shengelaia)
| producer =
| writer = {{ubl|[Aleksandre Kazbegi](/source/Aleksandre_Kazbegi) (novel)|Nikoloz Shengelaia|[Sergei Tretyakov](/source/Sergei_Tretyakov_(writer))}}
| narrator =
| starring =
| music = [Iona Tuskia](/source/Iona_Tuskia)
| cinematography = [Vladimer Kereselidze](/source/Vladimer_Kereselidze)
| editing =
| studio = [Sovkino](/source/Sovkino)
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1928|10|23|df=yes}}
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Silent
[Georgian](/source/Georgian_language) and Russian intertitles
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Eliso''''' is a 1928 Soviet [silent](/source/silent_film) [adventure film](/source/adventure_film) directed by [Nikoloz Shengelaia](/source/Nikoloz_Shengelaia) and loosely based on the short story by [Alexander Kazbegi](/source/Alexander_Kazbegi).[Christie & Taylor p.428][{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/kinohistoryofrus00jayl#page/273/mode/2up/|publisher=[George Allen & Unwin](/source/Allen_%26_Unwin)|author=Jay Leyda|author-link=Jay Leyda|title= Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film|year=1960|page=273}}][{{Cite web|url=http://kommersant.ru/doc/2563940|publisher=[Kommersant](/source/Kommersant)|title=Колония певчих дроздов}}] It was made in the [Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic](/source/Georgian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic).
It was released in the United States in 1929 by [Amkino](/source/Amkino) under the [alternative title](/source/alternative_title) of '''''Caucasian Love'''''.
==Plot==
The film is set in the 19th century. To consolidate its power in the [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus) region, the Russian government intends to evict the [Chechens](/source/Chechens) from the [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire). A [cossack](/source/cossack) [Ataman](/source/Ataman) fraudulently obtains signatures from illiterate residents for a petition which calls for resettlement to [Turkey](/source/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](/source/aul). The daughter of the village elders, Eliso falls in love with [Khevsurian](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Aleksandre_Imedashvili) as Astamur
* [Kokhta Karalashvili](/source/Kokhta_Karalashvili) as Vajia
* [Kira Andronikashvili](/source/Kira_Andronikashvili) as Eliso
* [I. Mamporya](/source/I._Mamporya) as Seidulla
* [Tsetsilia Tsutsunava](/source/Tsetsilia_Tsutsunava) as Zazubika
* [Aleksandre Jorjoliani](/source/Aleksandre_Jorjoliani) as General
* [K. Gurianov](/source/K._Gurianov) as Billeting officer
* [I. Galkin](/source/I._Galkin) as Village constable
* [Marika Chimishkian](/source/Marika_Chimishkian) as Muslimati
==Reception==
[Sergei Eisenstein](/source/Sergei_Eisenstein) expressed to [Ivor Montagu](/source/Ivor_Montagu) that there were only two good portrayals of the [lezginka](/source/lezginka) in film, and that Shengelaya's in Eliso was better than in ''[October: Ten Days That Shook the World](/source/October%3A_Ten_Days_That_Shook_the_World)'', the film he directed.[{{cite web|last=Gvelesiani|first=Salome|date=2012-06-18|title=ყველა დროის საუკეთესო ქართული ფილმები|trans-title=The Best Georgian Films of All Time|url=http://www.tbiliselebi.ge/?mas_id=14850|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118181500/http://www.tbiliselebi.ge/?mas_id=14850|archive-date=2017-01-18|url-status=dead|work=Tbiliselebi|language=ka}}]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Bibliography ==
* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. ''The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939''. Routledge, 2012.
== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0018862}}
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Category:Soviet black-and-white films
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Category:War romance films
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Category:Films set in the 19th-century Russian Empire
Category:Soviet-era films from Georgia (country)
Category:Silent films from Georgia (country)
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Category:Adventure drama films from Georgia (country)
Category:Silent adventure drama films
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