The four-day retrospective of Georgian silent cinema opened at the Cinema Hall of the National Archives of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia with the screening of Three Lives (1924), directed by Ivan Perestiani.

Over the course of four days, cinema enthusiasts will have the opportunity to watch outstanding works of Georgian cinema from the 1920s, presented in restored versions for the first time to both film scholars and wider audiences.

The following feature films will be screened: Red Devils (1923), directed by Ivan Perestiani; First Cornet Streshnev (1928), directed by Mikheil Chiaureli and Efim Dzigan; Gypsy Blood (1928), directed by Lev Push; Natela (1926), directed by Hamo Bek-Nazarov; Tetri mkhedari (God of War) (1929), directed by Efim Dzigan; Law of Mountain (1927), directed by Boris Mikhin.

The films are accompanied by intertitles in Georgian and English.

The Georgian National Film Center and the National Archives of Georgia continuously work toward the preservation and promotion of cinematic heritage. The high-quality digitization of the films presented at the retrospective was also carried out within the framework of the long-standing partnership between the two institutions.

The opening event was attended by Director of the Central Archive of Audio-Visual Documents of the National Archives, Giorgi Kakabadze, and Program Director of the Georgian National Film Center, Levan Dvali.

Attendance at the screenings is free of charge.