The White Caravan is a 1963 Soviet black-and-white drama directed by Tamaz Meliava and Eldar Shengelaya. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. Eldar Shengelaia and Tamaz Meliava shot their debut film White Caravan (1964) which showed shepards life, difficulties of their everyday routine, dramatism of contradictions between their wishes and alternatives.

艾尔达-桑杰拉亚的成名作。
At this period the productive collaboration begins between the famous Georgian scriptwriter Rezo Gabriadze and Eldar Shengelaya, the result was comedies: “Arachveulebrivi Gamopena”(Unusual Exhibition) and “Sherekilebi”(The Mad). The first film is mostly tragic-comical than comic history about the sculptor, whose aspiration for highly artistic masterpieces step by step sacrificed to day-to-day compromises. From the first sight the film “Sherekilebi”(The Eccentrics) is the grotesque fairy-tale about romanticists with the flying idea, but at this time under the warm humor is revealed the opposition of the stomach and the soul, of Philistines and Romanticists, which is actual every time and mostly in 70th years Soviet Union with its dissident movement.
艾尔达-桑杰拉亚（Eldar Shengelaya） - 父亲是导演，母亲是演员。1958年毕业于VGKI，同年进入莫斯科的Mosfilm片厂，在拍摄两部影片后，转往乔治亚的Gruzija-film片厂拍片。直到1968年的《一个离奇的展览》开始找到自己介于闹剧与虚幻怪诞的混合体风格。擅长融合俗套、自然、笑闹、悲剧、尖锐嘲讽与最令人瞠目结舌的奇妙幻想。