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.
Direction
Perestiani's flashback layering feels decades ahead of its time.
Cinematography
Nightmare sequences with expressionist shadows.
Director
Ivane Perestiani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the earliest surviving Georgian feature films, made during the brief flourishing of Soviet national cinemas before Stalinist homogenization.
Mikhail Kalatozov appears here as an actor before becoming legendary director of 'I Am Cuba' and 'The Cranes Are Flying.'
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