Jemal Gaganidze

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. Based on the story by Ilia Chavchavadze.

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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.

Screen adaptation of F. Gorenshtein's satirical stories.