Art
In the mountain village comes a group of young musicians in Tbilisi. Here they are going to relax and rehearse. Sad story about the final rupture occurred, the peasants do not sing beautiful old songs, the musicians play music incomprehensible to them ... Far from the idyllic image of rural life.
The film tells a strange story, in flashback, about a British Telegraph Company’s engineer named Hughes appearing in a distant Guria village. Falling in love with the beautiful Anna, the Englishman became the enemy of her brother, Bolshevik Nestor. Both Hughes and Nestor were shot dead by Lavrenty Mgeladze, who had once had everything, but later was dispossessed and driven out of the village. The old Anna told that story to a young composer who recorded the music: “My dear homeland, why are you weeping?…”
This musical is based on old Georgian vaudevilles and plays. The early 20th century. Old Tiflis is in confusion and turmoil. A mysterious fairy is helping the poor Pavle’s family: real wood is burning in his old, neglected fireplace, wherein a pot with meat would suddenly appear. The good fairy is impersonated by laundress Vardo who helps not only the poor Pavle, but other families in this quarter as well. Vardo is known to many people in the town, but no one ever suspected that she was capable of performing miracles. The film’s colorful folk melodies, merry songs and fiery dances leave no viewer indifferent. Starring in the leading role is the great Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli.
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.
The young protagonist of the film is in love with an older woman with children, and this further complicates his already tense relationship with his family and friends. Swimming against the current is accompanied by many difficulties, and this woman is the only solace for Temo.
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
The construction of an irrigation channel in the Alazni Valley faces many obstacles . Common welfare requires compromises , and no one wants that . Vazha , the chief construction engineer , will be at the center of the contradictions .
A biography of the Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz Pirosmanishvili (1862–1918), better known as Pirosmani, who died of starvation and sold his paintings to bars and restaurants for food and drink. The film experiments with color control techniques based on the painter’s style.
The film depicts episodes from Galaktion Tabidze's dramatic, contradictory life.
A man released from prison after serving his sentence decides to visit his son who he has not seen for a long time and spends the whole day with the boy. An adventurous, intelligent boy awakens fatherly feelings in him, but unexpectedly he finds out that the boy is not his son.
The daily existence of Tushi shepherds based on documented material, is poetically interpreted in the film and shows the moral harmony, spiritual purity, and fortitude of the characters of the film. The characters, with the exception of the main character, are local residents.
The events of the film take place in a remote part of Georgia in the early 19th century. It tells the story of the Georgian peasantry's struggle against local feudal lords and their henchmen.
