Sakhkinmretsvi

An ethnographic analysis of the small Caucasian Khevurian tribe in Georgia.

Christine, a village girl, raped by Jason Uqmadze, a local aristocrat, decides to take her own life but the villagers spot her body in the river and manage to save her. After the suicide fiasco, Christine befriends Sona, her alleged well-wisher in hope to start her life anew. Instead of helping her, as promised, Sona takes Christine to the brothel.

Two brothers, Turiko and Mgelia fall in love with the same girl and become each other's merciless enemies. The brothers decide to draw lots, the winner must kill the loser and marry the woman.

The action of the film takes place in 1905-07. The main characters are a revolutionary who escaped from Metekhi prison and two brothers who hate each other.

The film mocks the stereotypical image of Caucasians and Georgians. False representations of the Caucasus are satirized: Kakhuri wine flows like a spring on a narrow street of Tbilisi, which is drunk with wine glasses; Barbers shave their clients with a dagger, and if something offends them, they cut them with the same dagger; And A dancing Georgian woman dancing is observing all these without any emotion.

One of the earliest Georgian animations, the story is based on the myth of the Argonauts, featuring Medea, Jason, and the Golden Fleece.

Lexo and Nodar are working on the repainting the apartment building. They spend the whole day hanging from the roof. This is how they get to know the girl living in this house and both try to get her attention. Their organization receives the flight courses as a gift and Lexo recommends Nodar to eliminate the rival. But in the Aeroclub, Nodar will meet that very daughter, Nina, who is a flight instructor. Nodar studies passionately and soon becomes a pilot. In parallel, Lexo tries his best to interest Nina and pretends to be a pilot as well.