Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay. Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.

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...

The Civil War. A foster home teacher is delivering grain for the starving children. Her accidental co-travelers are Chekist Gorbach, sailor Sasha, and stationmaster Zaytsev, who came into possession of three gold nuggets. And around them are the Reds, the Whites and the bandits.

Varvara was born in Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century. And the first wedding she saw was her mother’s wedding. Years passed, the girl grew, matured, the world around changed ... Her generation had to go through many trials - revolution, military communism, NEP, war ... At the weddings that Varvara had a chance to visit, every era and love story was captured in snapshots a life.

讲述1121年信奉基督教的格鲁吉亚国王戴维四世击退了塞尔柱土耳其人的军队并攻占第比利斯，将其作为格鲁吉亚王国首都，开创了格鲁吉亚中世纪的黄金时期

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.