Acting
The film tells a strange story, in flashback, about a British Telegraph Companyβs 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: βMy dear homeland, why are you weeping?β¦β
The plot of a modern parable about love, duty and purity of thoughts is based on the creative process of an opera theater troupe working on staging one of the most complex works of musical classics - G. Puccini's opera "Turandot".
The elderly Levan became infatuated with the wife of his fellow villager, Gentor, the young and flirtatious Pasiko. The claims of the old ladiesβin-waiting become known to the gossip girl, and from her to the whole neighborhood.
A small dog makes every effort to bring a lonely man and a beautiful woman together.
A witty, despairing French-Russian-Italian-Swiss art movie set in 16th-century Georgia, Stalinist Georgia, contemporary Georgia, and contemporary Paris, featuring the same set of actors in all four settings.
Gogui and Omar flee in suburban trains to sell pornographic photographs. With no other perspective than to survive each day, the two outcasts transform their convergence of circumstance into a camaraderie that may rescue them, if the world does not interfere.
