Guram Pirtskhalava

The life of Jorje, tour guide from Brazil, changes dramatically as he travels to Svaneti, small, beautiful and very exotic region in Caucasian mountains of country of Georgia to learn about the sense of humor and jokes specific to this place. But he discovers the humor here can become even wilder then the Caucasian mountains.

This is the story of the Tbilisi-Batumi train, which, due to a switchman's mistake, first enters the line of occupation of the Georgian region of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, then the train enters the city of Chiatura.

The story of the film is in the sequence of narration of the subject world, the graphic side of the title serves the eternal alternation of extremely opposite, positive and negative forces, their confrontation and the concept of their unity, where the time torn by humanity is restored as a mysterious clarity ... The film is an attempt to re-evaluate the values, to overcome the difficulties that exist both in the material world fallen as a result of sin, as well as in the bodies of spiritual beings that guide the historical process.

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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.

The head of the security service is faced with a choice: to continue serving the state or to give up everything in order to save his sick son.

In a desperate attempt to save his wife's life, Nestor Cerpa - leader of the Peruvian revolutionary movement - and his commandos stormed the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima and took dozens of foreign diplomats and businessmen hostage for 126 days.

In an effort to expose the mafia resident, the criminal investigation inspector infiltrates the criminal environment and finds out who is hiding under the guise of one of his bosses.

Based on Mykola Khvylovyi’s novel I Am (Romance). The protagonist of this unsettling film, a man with the strange surname Hlavkoverkh, is obsessed with a romantic ideal of freedom, for which he does not stop even at the execution of his own mother.

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 position of village headman is inherited, but one day a stranger of unknown origin takes over the reins of the village and dominates the people.

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The film's characters are elderly people, one of whom lives in Georgia and the other in Israel. Both receive letters with the same content: a stranger asks them for financial help...

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Zaza Nakashidze is imprisoned for a murder he never committed. While in jail he tries to prove his innocence and with other prisoners, real murderers and thieves, dreams of freedom.

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

The film depicts the story of Leonardo's death in grotesque ways. Relatives begin the traditional preparations for the funeral, while the "deceased" archaically "walks" through the city streets, watching with interest the preparations for his own funeral.

Set in 1937 Stalinist Georgia, the film traces the parallel destinies of a mother, condemned by the government as "an enemy of the people" and exiled to a work camp in Siberia, and her daughter, who meanwhile is sent to an orphanage. Arriving at the overcrowded work camp, the mother and other women who are not considered strong enough to be labourers, must journey still farther, crossing the icy Siberian landscape in search of food and shelter. At the same time, the daughter escapes the orphanage and returns to her former home, where she finds that a KGB officer has taken up residence. He protects her and an uneasy rapport between them develops—one of abhorrence and attraction, need and suspicion.

Mikhail is fascinated by the ideas of the Decembrists about a Russia free from the tyranny of the Tsar. After graduating from military school, he goes abroad. Upon returning to Russia, a tragic life awaits him.

Famous pop singer Nino Mtiuli loses faith in her own creative powers, but eventually manages to overcome a creative crisis.

A group of young people wants to settle in an abandoned village and revive it

Foreign adventurers arrive in a small town of Georgia on a special mission, but locals hospitality and customs make them forget their goals completely.

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Georgy, who unsuccessfully tried to enter the conservatory twice and was left without family support, ran away from a prestigious job, not knowing how to live, and soon received a draft notice for the army.

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 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?…”

A journey in a second-class passenger car in Soviet Georgia. People are squeezed into cramped seats, some of them trying to get comfortable on lying places - shelves. The main "entertainment" is an elegant blond man who claims he is an actor and has traveled the world. His stories mesmerize most of the passengers. Nevertheless, there is a man of stern appearance who differs from the masses. He travels with a trained sparrow hidden in his coat and does not believe the tales of the so-called actor, and openly declares it. The men get into a fight...

The tale of a 20th century family line of swimmers who all attempt to swim some near-impossible distance in the Black Sea.

The film is set in southern Georgia during Ottoman control, where inhabitants, who were driven from their homes due to enemy invasions, try to return home through different means. One of these inhabitants is the young scholar Antimoz.

The story of the robbery, betrayal, and death of Arsena Odzelashvili, a famous robber, protector and supporter of the poor, based on a folk poem.

After the defeat of the 1905 revolution, the underground fighter Gio is sentenced to 25 years of hard labor. However, he manages to escape eight years later. Having lost his wife and daughter during this time, he decides to take revenge on the gendarmes. Gio's younger brother joins him in the mountains...

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.

Lazar helped grandma Varo, who came to the city from the village, fill out a sports lotto ticket. A few days later, the young man discovered that this particular ticket was the winning one. Without thinking twice, he went in search of grandmother...

The film tells the story of a chess coach who establishes a strong women's chess school in Georgia. The film is not biographical, although the prototype of the main character is the famous coach Vakhtang Karseladze.

The first secretary of the city party committee's house was filled with his colleagues: the head of the construction department, the deputy manager of the bank, a journalist, an ambulance doctor, and the head of the police department - in short, those who were responsible for the city's survival. And, of course, the reason for their gathering was the same: how to protect the city from a natural disaster?

Major Zaza is investigating a routine criminal case: murder for the purpose of robbery. However, his adversary is cunning and ruthless, a dangerous and cynical repeat offender nicknamed “The Intellectual.” Exposing this cunning criminal is proving difficult.

Three short films combine gentle Georgian humor and the absurdity of everyday situations. "Tedo" is about the consequences of an older football fan's passion for wrestling competitions, "Grazioso" is about a maestro conductor and football, and "The Misery of Old G.D." is about what happens when bread is not delivered to a bakery on time.

The screen adaptation of Osip Turyansky's novel "Beyond the boundaries of Pain", which is considered one of the best works, depicting the First World War as a hell through which seven people doomed to death, including the future author of the novel, passed.

A young man from a Christian family falls in love with a Muslim girl who lives behind the mountains in a village. The girl's relatives believe that according to Islamic tradition, a relationship between them is impossible, and they kill the young man.

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.

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...

Everyday lives in Tbilisian courtyard during World War 2.

A film about the life and work of 19th-century Georgian writer Egnate Ninoshvili. Biographical moments from the writer's life are closely intertwined with the plots and characters of his own works.

About a person's desire for love, empathy and mutual understanding. A prostitute, having met an honest and kind man, suddenly realized that she was capable of falling in love.

Bata, orphaned by her mother, has gone through a long way of life, and witnessed a lot - the fall of feudalism, revolution, and changing times. He got married and raised nine children, but his love for the girl from his village followed him until the end of his life.

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.

The village of Chokhi had decided to marry Shete to a girl from another village, but the bride refused. The offended village people send their women as spies, the men arm themselves and follow them to take revenge. They are accompanied by a writer collects people's stories along the way.

A group of rebel peasants rebels against the Menshevik government. They are led by Parnaoz Morchadze. Their uprising fails. The rebels take refuge in the forest. Parnaoz is eventually brutally murdered. Red Army units enter the city. In the street, comrades mourn Parnaoz, who did not live to see the victory.

Kvarkvare is wrongly accused of activities against the Tsar and is imprisoned, but the Socialist Revolution makes him an imposter "hero". Blinded with the authority, he goes to far in his avenge against the whole village.

At the end of the 20th century, the son of a distinguished family, Sosiko Cholokashvili, became interested in cinematography, a field unknown to the public. Despite his inexperience, financial difficulties, and disappointment, one of the first enthusiasts of Georgian cinema recorded many shots depicting the appearance and existence of old Tbilisi on tape.

The protagonist is a kind and brave boy who helps people fight evil. One day, a horseman arrived at the doorstep of an orphan’s house, asking for wine and oats for his horse. The house owner, unable to provide more than a dry flatbread, offered the horse hay instead of oats, which he used as bedding. The horseman was touched by the boy’s kindness and promised to reward him generously if he followed in his footsteps and helped others along the way.

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 .

Story about one of the leaders of the partisan movement Nestor Kalandarishvili during Russian Civil War in Siberia.

Russian Fedya and Georgian Shaliko fought side by side in the Patriotic War. Years later, Fedya meets his friend

The film begins in 1922 in Georgia. A strange event occurs near seven comrades. One of them, who knows the secret of horse riding, miraculously remains alive. Captivated by a sense of duty, the comrades decide to go to Gori to find this man, and if possible, then stop his crime, which will cost the lives of many innocents. With the light hand of the leader, a civil war breaks out in Georgia, which will claim the lives of everyone they found, but will have time to reveal many more deaths.

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?

A young assistant prosecutor was entrusted with the case involving a collapsed bridge, discovering the engineer wasn't guilty after conducting her own investigation.

Spring of 1944. The war is nearing its end. Thousands of concentration camp inmates were brought to the Normandy coast to repair the defenses damaged by Allied aircraft. On one of the islands, a small group of prisoners, led by Colonel Zakharov, prepares an uprising. The course of events was accelerated by an action taken by French prisoners of war. They barricaded themselves in the bunker and were ready, sacrificing themselves, to undermine the fortress.

Ketevan, a village doctor, is already sending her second son away in the world war. Only the youngest child, Mamuka, remains as the family's hope. Ketevan does not lack care for the sick, lives in hope, and waits for his children to return home. But the harsh reality of the war demands a sacrifice from her again - Ketevani sends his third son to the war as well.

Based on true story of Georgian uprising on Texel. Insurrection of captured Soviet-Georgian soldiers conscripted into German Wehrmacht on Holland's Texel Island during German occupation of Holland