The Land of the Ancestors

Drama, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Giga Lortkipanidze

Status Released

Release Date 1979-10-30

Storyline

Second World War. The fascists attack Svaneti. Old Betkili, whose son was killed in the war, lives far from the village. The old man comes across a Soviet soldier, Lasha, and shelters him in the mountains, but soon finds the soldier’s behavior suspicious.