The scholarly documentary film series explores major figures in Georgian literature, examining their role and place in global literary, cultural, and social contexts.The film covers six key periods in the history of Georgian literature: The series explores major figures in Georgian literature, examining their role and place in global literary, cultural, and social contexts. The subjects include:
- Shota Rustaveli and Georgian literature within medieval literary traditions
- Nikoloz Baratashvili and Merani in the orbit of European Romantic poetry
- Ilia Chavchavadze and Georgian literature’s struggle for statehood and civic consciousness
- Vazha-Pshavela and a Georgian theory of cosmopolitanism
- Galaktion Tabidze’s Artistic Flowers and Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil
- Tbilisi as an avant-garde city
- Mikheil Javakhishvili as an alternative voice to the Soviet narrative in Georgian literature
- Ana Kalandadze – a female poet and the renewal of aesthetic frameworks
- Irakli Charkviani and the “smooth sailing” toward a postmodernist narrative