19th-Century Georgian Chronicle
★ 6.7 · 1979 · 76m · Drama
A poetized chronicle of the events taking place in one of the Georgian villages in the late 19th century, when, to save a forest, the innumerous intelligentsia could rally the people and oppose the industrialists…
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