Shalva Dadiani

Schoolteacher Spiridon and his pretty wife Despine are taking a room in a small inn. Tariel Mklavadze, a local nobleman and debauchee falls for a beauty of Despine. He and his friends terrify young couple trying to get Despine.

Revolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.

In order to eradicate malaria, endemic in the marshes of the Mingrelia region, the authorities plan to drain a large territory that according to legend is the realm of "Uzhmuri", the Queen of Frogs and a deadly deity for intruders.

Young Makvalla, who loves the cowman Onise, is married off to the unloved есаul Gela Goderdzishvili, who has become rich in the service of the bailiff. Onise decides to run away with Makvalla, and during a fight at Gela's house, he is seriously injured. Makvalla disappears from Gela's house. The fugitive is saved from death and taken in by the hermit shepherd Onfrey.

The legend of the Suram Fortress.

The boy Niko and the bull Nikora are working in the field. After hard work, they rest, but are attacked by an evil and gluttonous troll.