The young protagonist of the film is in love with an older woman with children, and this further complicates his already tense relationship with his family and friends. Swimming against the current is accompanied by many difficulties, and this woman is the only solace for Temo.

Kvarkvare is wrongly accused of activities against the Tsar and is imprisoned, but the Socialist Revolution makes him an imposter "hero". Blinded with the authority, he goes to far in his avenge against the whole village.

A journey in a second-class passenger car in Soviet Georgia. People are squeezed into cramped seats, some of them trying to get comfortable on lying places - shelves. The main "entertainment" is an elegant blond man who claims he is an actor and has traveled the world. His stories mesmerize most of the passengers. Nevertheless, there is a man of stern appearance who differs from the masses. He travels with a trained sparrow hidden in his coat and does not believe the tales of the so-called actor, and openly declares it. The men get into a fight...

Set in 1937 Stalinist Georgia, the film traces the parallel destinies of a mother, condemned by the government as "an enemy of the people" and exiled to a work camp in Siberia, and her daughter, who meanwhile is sent to an orphanage. Arriving at the overcrowded work camp, the mother and other women who are not considered strong enough to be labourers, must journey still farther, crossing the icy Siberian landscape in search of food and shelter. At the same time, the daughter escapes the orphanage and returns to her former home, where she finds that a KGB officer has taken up residence. He protects her and an uneasy rapport between them develops—one of abhorrence and attraction, need and suspicion.

This somber story of love lost forever is set against the backdrop of the changes that Communism brought to the state of Georgia in the former USSR after the 1917 Revolution. Eva and Archil are deeply in love and they pledge to be with each other always. After they marry, Archil dies suddenly and Eva is left alone and childless. Along comes the ruthless Spiridon who romances Eva and marries her - though his cold and cruel spirit break Eva's naturally buoyant self, until she sullenly eats alone, and avoids intimacy with her husband as much as possible. They adopt a daughter, who does not take sides between her glum mother and silent father. When the Communist cadres enter their village to promote the ideals of the October revolution, Eva starts to warm to her husband a little because he joins in that movement. Then her husband commits the fatal error of revealing a previous crime - an error that will later cause their grown daughter to question her parents' strange behavior.

This is a story about the attempts of three generations of men to swim a distance equal to two English Channels. At the turn of the century, Dumbadze, the oldest among the three, really swam from Batumi to Poti, however, no one registered it as a record. Dumbadze the middle, in 1947, got lost in enigmatic circumstances before the ceremonious swimming occasion. But Dumbadze, the youngest, seems to be without any swimming skills at all… Nevertheless, he wades in the sea and swims. Astonishing is the director's ability to join the phantasmal character of events with a precise characterization of each age. Presence of the shooting group in a shot is used as an artistic method, which allows a spectator to believe in the story happenings in its entirety. Irakli Kvirikadze's film The Swimmer, made in 1981, but not released in its full form until 1987, traces the fates of three members of the same Georgian family through sequences set in 1913, 1947 and the film's present. It uses the metaphor of swimming to examine questions of Georgian culture and identity both within its narrow surface timescale and over the whole of Georgian history. This article seeks to examine the ways in which The Swimmer re-asserts Georgian identity in the context of Soviet experience. It looks at the film's allusions to Georgian history from the Kingdom of Colchis, visited by Jason and the Argonauts, through the Greek, Roman, Christian and Ottoman periods, to the late Tsarist era, the Russian Revolution and the Stalin years. The Swimmer is also a film about its own making, and its other central concern is the questions raised by attempts to ‘film the past'. Like other films of the period, it examines the way in which art and memory combine to attempt to provide historical understanding. Irakli Kvirikadze (born in Georgia, 1939) In 1968, he graduated from Moscow SFI. He is known as a director and the screenwriter both for his own and Nana Giordzadze's, as well as for other directors'films. Since 1991, he has been living in Los Angeles, he works in the USA, France, Germany, Russia.

1920年，巴黎男子艾沙克旅行途中爱上了格鲁吉亚公主西西利亚，并决定留在当地，开一家法式餐馆。次年，苏联红军进入后，其领导人泽格蒙德强迫西西利亚跟他结婚，并接管了餐馆。艾沙克失去了他两样心肝宝贝，潜心写了一部传世菜谱和传记。多年后，西西利亚的儿子发现了这部书，并把它翻译了出来，在这过程中他发现作者原来是他亲生父亲。