Giorgi Mikeladze

The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.

Sulkhan Iberieli, the famous scientist and the head of the excavation of the desert monastery complex, does not have the funds to finish his work. He is forced to turn to different authorities and people for help. He is supported by a young archaeologist, Tamriko, but their efforts end in failure.

The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) “And They Arrived at the Peasant’s Hut… or the Adventures of Writer Senya in Search of the Hidden Word,” in which writer Senya draws inspiration for his rural novels from his housekeeper Yermolayevna’s tales; (2) “The Song, or How the Great Louarsab Organized a Choir,” where a city visitor attempts to form a choir of centenarian elders in a Georgian mountain village; (3) “What Is Our Life?! or What Is Our Life?!”—during a musical reenactment of pre-Revolutionary France, a drunken actor’s tardiness forces King Louis XIV (also the theater committee chairman) and the cast to improvise the play’s ending.

Rachvelians, notables with their slowness tell awkward, partly unbelievable and very funny anecdotes they have gone through, while their countryman participates in long-distance race.

Tadeoz Toroshelidze is the most reknowned wine drinker in the whole area. Once he even won a drinking horn in a competition that has rested in his house ever since.

Old Luka dreams to plant rare pear saplings in his orchard, so that after years his beloved grandson Kakha will enjoy its fruits. In his tough journey to get the saplings, Luka gives Kakha lots of life lessons.

A graduate of a sewing school arrives in a Kakhetian village. Insisting on opening a fashion house there, the energetic and good-natured Makvala makes the life of the villagers much more lively.

Two families have physically survived the 'real' war, but are incapable of building a new life in peace. War continues in everyday life because the chaos is inside human beings.

A traumatized boy starts to bully his new classmates, and tries to find meaning in his life.

A man tracks down the men who raped his wife.

The film depicts the first years of the establishment of Soviet power in Georgia. The spiritual cataclysms caused by social transformations. The daughter of a prince is forced to marry a newly rich winemaker, but their incompatibility is obvious and the union is hopeless.

This somber story of love lost forever is set against the backdrop of the changes that Communism brought to the state of Georgia in the former USSR after the 1917 Revolution. Eva and Archil are deeply in love and they pledge to be with each other always. After they marry, Archil dies suddenly and Eva is left alone and childless. Along comes the ruthless Spiridon who romances Eva and marries her - though his cold and cruel spirit break Eva's naturally buoyant self, until she sullenly eats alone, and avoids intimacy with her husband as much as possible. They adopt a daughter, who does not take sides between her glum mother and silent father. When the Communist cadres enter their village to promote the ideals of the October revolution, Eva starts to warm to her husband a little because he joins in that movement. Then her husband commits the fatal error of revealing a previous crime - an error that will later cause their grown daughter to question her parents' strange behavior.

After being sentenced to death by the Bolsheviks, Nazar has conversations in his cell as he awaits execution with the commissar who sentenced him and a priest.

About the students of the vocational technical school, who buy one suit together. The film assures us that man himself should be kind and innocent by nature, that no jewels and expensive clothes can ennoble the intolerant and indifferent.

The forty-year-old composer, who once showed great promise, becomes a piano tuner. On his old car, the resilient hero drives around Georgia, helping people tune instruments, and does not lose hope that the best music has not yet been written by him.

The film confession of a man born during World War 2, who grew up under Stalin and reached maturity during the Brezhnev stagnation period. An exploration of the problems of man's inner freedom.

The film tells about a family of builders, their honest attitude to work and their family problems.