Jemal Ghaghanidze

Screen adaptation of F. Gorenshtein's satirical stories. A short story film allegorically depicting the life of Soviet Georgia.

A lonely provincial man asks his childhood friends to come to his hometown. He is forced to explain the reason for their gathering to his surprised friends by the unexpected invitation.

Marita arrives at a small village in Georgia to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man…

A naive girl finds a notebook containing plans for possible murders. She sets out to find everyone mentioned in it and warn them of their prospective gruesome deaths.

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.

Dato’s friends learn that his lover Tamriko is getting married to another man. They decide to get Tamriko and Dato closer to each other. They ask Tamriko a nurse, to go with them in the ambulance outside the city. Tamriko learns that she is kidnapped and demands that she is brought back home. However, Tamriko gets to like the company of her "kidnappers" and stays.

The story about the friendship between a Soviet fighter squadron pilot and the children stuck in a city destroyed by the enemy during WW2.

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...

Arsena got tired of being a farmer, decided to go to Batumi and start working on a ship. Arriving in Batumi, he encounters a film crew that urgently needs a rescuer. But Arsena can't adjust to the restless life of the film crew, he misses the village, and when this "experienced sailor" almost drowns at sea because he doesn't know how to swim, he has no choice but to return home.

The young man of the exalted and noble soul walks from village to village and sows goodness. But evil forces kill him. The young man’s soul moves into the body of the Easter lamb. An evil lamb enters a forest full of wolves…

Prince Luarsab is going to get married. But he is fooled and instead of desired woman, he has to marry woman's ugly sister Darejan. However, he gets used to it and the couple live their unbothered life together.

Chiriki and Chikotela are neighbors who have an endless dispute over a small piece of land. Neighbors will eventually reconcile when their children fall in love with each other.

Nodar, the man with a fickle character, leaves his wife and children in the village and goes to Kutaisi in search of his fortune. His friend Givi advises Nodar to return to his family, but Nodar wants to live in the city and will start working as a manager of a car factory dancer's circle.

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 man is put in charge of organizing a children's soccer team, but he doesn't know anything about the sport.

A cult of diners, restaurants and an excessive eating prevails in the City of Joy. Different contests are held in cooking the Georgian cuisine. Makro, a famous singer, decides to lend some spirituality to the city of gluttons. For that purpose she decides to set up a gallery of beautiful paintings in one of the city’s restaurants. The owners of the restaurant oppose that decision, but due to Makro’s agility the tenants of the city carry the paintings to the new museum.

Vazha, also known as Pkhinko, is a kind hearted person. He cannot remain indifferent when a man is beaten, but if he deserves it, he can punish himself and go to prison for it.

The Messenger of God appears to the passengers of the plane and asks each of them about their sins. An extreme situation reveals the hidden nature of people.

A poor nobleman, Solomon Morbeladze, rides his shaggy mule to earn his daily bread. Solomon has made matchmaking his profession, and in this way he must support his family and escape hunger, debts, and taxes.