Iza Gigoshvili

Based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A penniless girl marries a pawnbroker. The spouses do not understand each other because of the difference in age and social status.

The film is about a young Georgian poet Mirza Gelovani, who died in WWII. It also tells the story of Mirza Gelovani’s contemporaries who sacrificed their youth to their homeland

Writer and newspaper editor Bachana Bregvadze is hospitalized with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction. A writer on the edge of life and death recalls and analyzes his past life.

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 stone-cutter, Nasdika, transforms stones into works of art. The labourer, Ivané, harvests wheat in the field. The monk, Béka, paints his pictures in the convent cell. The nobleman, Kirilé, has decided to get married. The war started by enemies turns all these people into warriors. Living Legends is a parable, a hymn to the glory of the georgian people, enamoured of freedom and independence, whose most worthy sons have never hesitated to die in the name of the glorious future of their country.