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• NovelAmiran-Darejanianiამირან-დარეჯანიანიAnonymous · 1150A cycle of chivalric adventures in prose, born in the twelfth century, when Georgian literature begins to emerge from the monasteries.Literature
• PoetryThe Knight in the Panther's SkinვეფხისტყაოსანიShota Rustaveli · 1200Two knights bound by an oath travel through a conventional Orient to find a lost woman, in a poem that makes friendship and love a complete morality.Literature
• TaleA Book of Wisdom and Liesსიბრძნე სიცრუისაSulkhan-Saba Orbeliani · 1695Fables and tales embedded in the disputes of a royal court, in the manner of the great books of Oriental tales.Literature
• Poetryსევდის ბაღს შეველBesarion Gabashvili · 1780not translated into EnglishA piece from the best-known love cycle of Georgian poetry before the Russian conquest, in which a court poet expresses a break-up through the image of a garden where nothing is picked.Literature
• Poetryვაჰ, დრონი, დრონიAlexander Chavchavadze · 1820not translated into EnglishA lament on the flight of time in which the return of the same line turns regret into a vow of fidelity to what is no more.Literature
• PoetryსადღეგრძელოGrigol Orbeliani · 1827not translated into EnglishDuring the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828, a young Georgian officer turns a camp banquet into a patriotic meditation.Literature
• Poetryოსური მოთხრობაGiorgi Eristavi · 1832not translated into EnglishIn 1832, a nineteen-year-old poet, caught up in a conspiracy, draws from the memory of the Persian wars a love story between two mountains.Literature
• PoetryმთვარეAlexander Orbeliani · 1832not translated into EnglishAn allegorical poem of 1832, written in the year of a failed conspiracy against Russian rule.Literature
• Poetryბედი ქართლისაNikoloz Baratashvili · 1839not translated into EnglishAt the end of the eighteenth century, a king and his chancellor debate what it costs to place oneself under the protection of an empire.Literature
• Narrativeმგზავრის წერილებიIlia Chavchavadze · 1861not translated into EnglishAt the beginning of the sixties, a student returning to his country turns his travel journal into a manifesto.LiteraturePublic domain
• Poetryსამშობლო ხევსურისაRapiel Eristavi · 1881not translated into EnglishIn 1881, in a Tbilisi newspaper, a highlander rejects in verse the plain and what is promised there.Literature
• Novelმამის მკვლელიAlexander Kazbegi · 1882not translated into EnglishA novel of Khevi under the Empire, in which the love of two young people runs up against power and an honour code that does not forgive.Literature
• PoetryთამარიანიSimon Gugunava · 1888not translated into EnglishIn 1888, a poet from Guria versifies a historical narrative of the century, in the manner of the national epic.LiteraturePublic domain
• Narrativeიავნანამ რა ჰქმნა?!Iakob Gogebashvili · 1890not translated into EnglishA story of abduction and return, written for children and read by a whole country, on that Caucasus frontier where horsemen from Daghestan would ride down into the villages of Kakheti.Literature
• EpicThe Myth of AmiraniამირანიAnonymous · 1890A hero chained in the Caucasus for having defied God, a dog that wears down the chain and smiths who remake it: the Georgian myth that Hellenists compare to Prometheus.Literature
• Poetryსტუმარ-მასპინძელიVazha-Pshavela · 1893not translated into EnglishA highlander receives in his home a man from the enemy clan, and two equally sacred duties command contrary things of him.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryგამზრდელიAkaki Tsereteli · 1898not translated into EnglishA poem of the high valleys of the Caucasus, in which hospitality, honour and the responsibility of the man who has raised a child confront one another in a single night.Literature
• Poetryელენე დარიანის დღიურებიPaolo Iashvili · 1915not translated into EnglishA cycle of love poems signed with a woman's name, given to the journals of Kutaisi and Tiflis, whose true author still divides Georgian scholars.Literature
• EssayWith Blue Drinking Hornsცისფერი ყანწებითTitsian Tabidze · 1916The manifesto of an order of young poets formed in Kutaisi, which wants to link Georgian literature to Europe and to make the city, not the village, the place of modern art.Literature
• Poetryარტისტული ყვავილებიGalaktion Tabidze · 1919not translated into EnglishIn 1919, in the short-lived Georgian republic, a second collection establishes a new poetic language.Literature
• CinemaLittle Red Devilsწითელი ეშმაკუნებიIvane Perestiani · 1923An adventure film of the civil war, shot between Tbilisi and Odessa at the very beginning of Soviet cinema, in which three teenagers wage a war of their own against the anarchist bands of Ukraine.Cinema
• NovelKvachiკვაჭი კვაჭანტირაძეMikheil Javakhishvili · 1924A Georgian swindler who rises from Tiflis to the tsar's entourage, in an empire on the eve of collapse.Literature
• Novelგველის პერანგიGrigol Robakidze · 1926not translated into EnglishA quest leading from Persia to England, where the seeker finds himself, in a prose of myth and symbols.Literature
• Cinemaკომუნარის ჩიბუხიKote Marjanishvili · 1929A Georgian silent film on the Paris Commune, in which an object passed from hand to hand serves as the common thread.Cinema
• Cinemaჩემი ბებიაKote Mikaberidze · 1929A satire of Soviet administration shot in Tbilisi at the end of the silent era, with expressionist sets, animated objects and puppets, in which a dismissed employee looks for a protector.Cinema
• CinemaბუბაNutsa Gogoberidze · 1930A documentary shot in a remote valley of the Caucasus, where the gaze of a woman filmmaker and that of a modern painter meet on lives of very little.Cinema
• CinemaხაბარდაMikheil Chiaureli · 1931A silent satire of old Georgian society, in which people quarrel over a church promised for demolition at the turn of the thirties.Cinema
• Cinemaოცდაექვსი კომისარიNikoloz Shengelaia · 1932Twenty-six Bolshevik commissars arrested in Baku in 1918 and taken to the other side of the Caspian, in a film built in the editing.Cinema
• Cinemaმზაღო და გელაLev Push · 1934Two young Georgian highlanders facing the arrival of Soviet power in their village, and the choice to go towards what they do not know.Cinema
• NovelThe Hand of a Great Masterდიდოსტატის მარჯვენაKonstantine Gamsakhurdia · 1939A novel of 1939: a cathedral building site in the kingdom of Georgia, when the crown, the Church and the clans of the highlands contend for the country.Literature
• Cinemaქეთო და კოტეVakhtang Tabliashvili and Shalva Gedevanishvili · 1948A musical comedy based on a play from the Tiflis repertoire, in which a matchmaker takes the side of the lovers against an arranged marriage to a ruined prince.Cinema
• PoetryლექსებიAna Kalandadze · 1953The first book of a poet whose verses were already circulating in the journals and being learned by heart, and which the censors cut heavily before allowing it to appear.Literature
• PoetryლექსებიMukhran Machavariani · 1955not translated into EnglishThe first book of a poet whom late Soviet Georgia read more than almost any other, and whose manner at first jarred the literary establishment.Literature
• NovelI See the Sunმე ვხედავ მზესNodar Dumbadze · 1962A story from 1962: a Georgian village in the rear during the war, seen by a teenager left alone by the arrests of 1937.Literature
• Cinemaთეთრი ქარავანიEldar Shengelaia · 1963The transhumance of Georgian shepherds towards the Caspian, where the son of the oldest of them meets a fisherwoman and begins to want something other than the road.Cinema
• CinemaI Am CubaSoy CubaMikhail Kalatozov · 1964Four stories of the island on the eve of the revolution, carried by a camera that never comes to rest.Cinema
• CinemaFather of a Soldierჯარისკაცის მამაRezo Chkheidze · 1964An old Georgian winegrower goes to find his son wounded at the front and ends up fighting the war alongside the others, without ever ceasing to look for him.Cinema
• Short filmქორწილიMikheil Kobakhidze · 1964A twenty-minute silent short film, shot like a comedy of the twenties, in which a Georgian wedding plays out to the rhythm of a Gypsy romance.Cinema
• Cinemaმე ვხედავ მზესLana Gogoberidze · 1965The adaptation of a widely read text about a village behind the lines during the war, where an orphan boy and a blind girl grow up together.Cinema
• Cinemaდიდი მწვანე ველიMerab Kokochashvili · 1967A shepherd of the great Kakhetian plain sees boreholes, the collective farm and his people's wish to return to the village arrive on his pastures.Cinema
• Cinemaარ იდარდო!Georgiy Daneliya · 1969A young doctor returned from Russia to a Georgian town of bygone days, amid banquets, debts and neighbours who were not expecting him.Cinema
• CinemaფიროსმანიGiorgi Shengelaia · 1969A life of the painter Niko Pirosmani, filmed in fixed, frontal shots that reproduce the composition of his canvases, in which the title role is played by a painter and not by an actor.Cinema
• CinemaThere Was a Singing Blackbirdიყო შაშვი მგალობელიOtar Iosseliani · 1970A musician who spends his evenings out and always comes back just in time, in a film that refuses to make a plot out of his life.Cinema
• Short filmფეოლაBaadur Tsuladze · 1970Twenty minutes taken from an almanac of three sports stories, in which a neighbourhood employee finds himself coaching a team of kids he does not want.Cinema
• NovelData Tutashkhiaდათა თუთაშხიაChabua Amirejibi · 1973A novel of 1973: Georgia at the turn of the century, under tsarist rule, a man whom a whole province protects and the policeman who pursues him.Literature
• NovelA Man Was Going Down the Roadგზაზე ერთი კაცი მიდიოდაOtar Chiladze · 1973A novel in three parts that sets the legend of the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea coast and makes the arrival of the Greeks in Colchis the image of a much more recent conquest.Literature
• CinemaრეკორდიGuram Pataraia · 1973A story by Karel Čapek transposed to the Mingrelian countryside, where a world record in the shot put runs up against the commission sent to certify it.Cinema
• Poetryუფლისციხესთან სისხლისფერი ყაყაჩოს წვეთიMurman Lebanidze · 1974not translated into EnglishA collection from late Soviet Georgia, in which national feeling is voiced before the stones of the country, fortresses, cathedrals and a city carved into the rock, rather than in the slogans of the regime.Literature
• Novelსამოსელი პირველიGuram Dochanashvili · 1975not translated into EnglishA novel of 1975: the parable of the prodigal son turned into an adventure novel, between a mountain hamlet, an imaginary city and the Brazilian sertão.Literature
• Cinemaპირველი მერცხალიNana Mchedlidze · 1975A comedy about the very first Georgian football players, their friendship, their relentless training and the way the city looks at them.Cinema
• Cinemaბეღურების გადაფრენაTemur Babluani · 1980In a Georgian railway carriage, a traveller passes himself off as someone else before strangers who are willing to believe it, and only one refuses.Cinema
• Cinemaგზა შინისაკენAleksandre Rekhviashvili · 1981The life of a seventeenth-century Georgian scholar, taken to Romania by the Ottomans, filmed in static shots and silences.Cinema
• CinemaმოცურავეIrakli Kvirikadze · 1981A family chronicle in which the same impossible swim, passed down from father to son, is used to tell the whole of the Georgian century.Cinema
• CinemaRepentanceმონანიებაTengiz Abuladze · 1984A provincial tyrant is buried and his corpse returns every night; the woman who digs him up is put on trial, and her trial reopens thirty years that the town had decided to forget.Cinema
• CinemaThe Legend of Suram Fortressამბავი სურამის ციხისაSergei Parajanov · 1985A Georgian legend set out in tableaux, in which a freed serf goes off to make his fortune, the woman he was supposed to buy free stays behind, and a fortress refuses to stand.Cinema
• Cinemaნეილონის ნაძვის ხეRezo Esadze · 1985A parable set on a coach, where cold, waiting and rumour pit against one another people who have nothing in common, on a festive evening.Cinema
• Cinemaრობინზონიადა ანუ ჩემი ინგლისელი პაპაNana Djordjadze · 1987The memory of an English telegraphist who stayed on in a Georgian village as the short-lived independent republic collapsed before the Red Army.Cinema
• CinemaრჩეულიMikheil Kalatozishvili · 1991A Georgian peasant, his son and a fugitive, in a transposition of Mateo Falcone to the time of the civil war.Cinema
• CinemaისინიLevan Zakareishvili · 1992Four eighteen-year-old boys in the suburbs of Tbilisi in the mid-seventies, and what a shared childhood produces in the way of different lives.Cinema
• CinemaზღვარზეDito Tsintsadze · 1993A man who wants to remain neutral in a country coming apart, filmed without that country or that war ever being named.Cinema
• Short filmარა, მეგობარო!Giorgi Mgeladze · 1993A man who wants to leave, in a country where bullets fly without an address.Cinema
• Cinemaოცნებების სასაფლაოGoga Khaindrava · 1997The Abkhazia conflict told by those who fought it, with characters who bear the names of real combatants.Cinema
• CinemaHere Comes the Dawnაქ თენდებაZaza Urushadze · 1998A man of power must choose between the state he serves and his son's life.Cinema

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