
Lia Eliava
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Police officers are investigating the theft of a Stradivarius violin.
Night Visit

In Arabic, โmamelukeโ means a white slave, a prisoner. In Egypt, this name was given to prisoners of war who had been sold into slavery from Georgia and other countries of the Caucasus. The action of this drama starts in Georgia in the late 18th century. Two friends are abducted and sold into slavery. One ends up in Egypt, the other - in Venice. Years later, they meet by the ancient pyramids, in the desert where a battle is going on between the armies of Bonaparte and Ali-bey, the ruler of Egypt. In a combat with a French officer, the Mameluke injures him. Falling from his horse onto the sand, the officer exclaims in Georgian: โVai, nana!โ (โOh, mother!โ). And the Mameluke recognizes in him a mate of his childhood games.
Mameluke

Four novels "Dinner", "Secret", "business Trip" and "Mozart", United by a common theme of kindness and attention to the surrounding people, tell about the adventures of two elderly, but not lost the taste for life of Georgians!
Cheers, My Dear!

A just man becomes an outlaw. He is pursued by the police over the years, while he tries to fight the injustice in the world, but he can't figure out the minds of his fellow men, and is often misunderstood.
Data Tutashkhia

In an extreme emergency, a professorโs brain is transplanted into the body of a recidivist who died in a disaster, leading to dramatic consequences.
Spirali

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Blue Mountains, or an Unbelievable Story

The 17th century rebellion in Kakheti masterminded by Bidzina Cholokashvili gets about the whole Georgia. An Imeretian youth nicknamed as Bashi-Achuk is a real exterminator of the Persians. He attacks the Persian escort and sets free the Georgian women who were supposed to be locked up in the Shahโs harem. Bashi-Achukโs twin sisters are among the rescued captives. Abdushahil, a Persian warrior who was defeated by Bashi-Achuk in wrestling, falls in love with Mzisa, Bashi-achukโs sister. Mzisa brings Abdushahil to the camp of the Georgian rebels. Abdushahil learns that he is a Georgian too. As a child he was kidnapped and brought up in Persia. Abdushahilโs army gives up and the Georgians win the battle.
Bashi-Achuki

Dangerous criminals attempt to involve children in their crimes, but law enforcement officers manage to promptly put a stop to their activities.
Who is Fourth?

In Georgia during WWII Zurikela, an orphan boy, meets Khatia, a blind girl, and vows to help her to see again.
I See the Sun

Anthim the Iberian - Antimoz Iverieli, a Georgian theologian, scholar, calligrapher, philosopher and one of the greatest ecclesiastic figures of Wallachia, led the printing press of the prince of Wallachia, and was Metropolitan of Bucharest in 1708-1715.
Anthim the Iberian

After getting expelled from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts for his free-thinking ideas, young artist Kosta Khetagurov returns to his homeland of Iriston, known in Russian as Ossetia. Despite financial troubles and governmental persecution, he tirelessly advocates for the Ossetian people while honing his craft as a poet, playwright, and artist.
Iriston's Son

The tragic events in Georgian history, spanning from the 16th to the 18th centuries, culminated in the signing of the Treaty of Georgievsk in 1783, which placed Georgia under Russian protection.
The Book of Oath

A strange phenomenon has been noticed on the outskirts of our Solar system that quickly approaches the Earth. It's called "Orion's Loop." A spaceship with a crew of people and androids identical to them is sent to intercept the anomaly. But strange events start happening as the spaceship approaches the mysterious loop.
The Orion Loop

Tbilisi, early 1980s. From the outside, everything seems calm, but behind this tranquillity there is turmoil. Manana, who used to be a movie star, is no longer remembered by any director. Her childhood friend Rusudan suffers from loneliness despite a successful scientific career. Manana's aunt, Matiko, mourns her late husband. Her daughter, 19-year-old Salome, and her friends are also facing life's difficulties. Through strange coincidences, the lives of the film's characters become intertwined...
Full Circle

About the commander Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration. Mortally wounded in the Battle of Borodino, he slowly dies in the village, at the estate of his aunt. The hero recalls the past, his experiences. Each episode of Bagration's life is a page of Russian history: the military march across the Alps, the capture of the impregnable Devil's Bridge, meetings with Alexander I, the battle of Borodino.
Bagrationi

The trial of political prisoners is taking place in the Kutaisi prison. They face hanging or life imprisonment. In order to release them from prison, a party figure, nicknamed "Chagara" and a revolutionary woman, "Vardo", aka Nato Nakashidze-Volfisa, come to the city. She rents a house near the prison, supposedly to open a knitting workshop. Will they be able to escape?
Escape at Dawn

The film is based on a real story. Climbers found the purse of a military postman killed during World War II, letters sent 30 years later.
Don't Believe that I'm No Longer Here

Engineer Japaridze, in order to speed up the construction of the hydroelectric station, grossly violates the safety rules and causes a disaster. He is sentenced to a long prison term.
Sentence

An orphaned boy, Lazare, follows a wandering blind man from village to village to find the daily bread. Despite the extreme hardships, their relationship becomes a kind of moral support for the child.
Adventures of Lazare

The film delves into the moral dilemmas of human relationships. An old sailor, the sole survivor of a ship that sank during the war, grapples with the weight of a moral compromise made many years ago. As he reflects on his past, he recalls his carefree life, filled with mistakes, and the crime he committed against the captain of the lost ship.