Movies: Ivane Perestiani

After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinely....

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation....

In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in ca...

The film tells about Davit Guramishvili's short period of activity during the rule of Vakhtang VI...

At a military demonstration Red Imps: Misha, Duniasha and Tom Jackson bring a captured enemy, dangerous Makhno....

XIX century peasants' revolt and the life story of bandit Arsena Odzelashvili....

“Chelovecheskie bezdny is an excellent sample of the “high style”, brought to perfection in Yevgeni Bauer’s melodramas. A stage set designer by training, Bauer relied on drapes, curtains and columns, which divided the set into sections but were also ...

The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century....

The legend of the Suram Fortress....

After demobilization from the Red Army, the former “red devils” decide to settle in Baku. They go to work in the chemical laboratory of one of the oil industry enterprises. Here, young heroes come to grips with the fraudster Usseinov - and soon, as h...

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In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling to survive in harsh conditions, he is finally ...

The aging writer Shelestov falls passionately in love with a young actress Olga Rogina and wants to marry her. They spend many evenings together and, it seems, their story is approaching a happy denouement. But suddenly, a plane of a famous aviator l...

Bakhva Pulava, a merchant from Poti fells in love with a poor tailor woman named Esma and marries her. At the same time, enchanted by her beauty, another man named Jeremiah Tsarba decides to kidnap her. When Esma refuses to share bed with him Jeremia...

Revolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905....

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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....

Princess Shirvanskaya is from Baku. She lives in Paris and wants to get back her father’s property who before the revolution owned big oil fields....

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June 22, 1941. The day began as usual at a museum on the western border of the Soviet Union, but in the afternoon a bloodied horseman burst into the museum courtyard. It was the commander of the guard. The museum director, his wife, the gardener, and...