Prince bon-vivant Levan Phantiashvili finds himself in a difficult financial situation. To make his life better he agrees to marry the merchant Adam Varakhidze’s daughter, Elo. The merchant is happy for this move opens the door in a high society for him until he finds out that Elo is not quite happy with his decision.
Acting
Elisabed Cherqezishvili's scene-stealing Khanuma energy
Direction
Tsutsunava's theatrical roots bleeding into kinetic framing
Costume
Aristocratic finery vs. merchant-class aspiration as visual punchline
Director
Aleqsandre Tsutsunava
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Avksenty Tsagareli's 1897 play, the film captures Georgia's uneasy 1920s moment: aristocratic nostalgia colliding with Soviet egalitarianism, all disguised as crowd-pleasing comedy.
Mikheil Chiaureli, playing the servant Saqo, would later become Stalin's favorite director—making his early farce work weirdly poignant in retrospect.
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