Bashi-Achuki

It is the seventeenth century, and a rebellion breaks out in Kakheti in Georgia. Bidzina Cholokashvili is behind it. The movement spreads across the country. A young man from Imereti comes to the front. They call him Bashi-Achuk. He fights against the Persian forces. He attacks an escort column. He frees the Georgian women being held there. They were to be sent to the Shah’s court. His own twin sisters are among those freed. A warrior called Abdushahil loses a wrestling match to him and then falls for his sister Mzisa. She brings him to the rebel camp, where he learns that he is Georgian himself, taken as a child and raised in Persia. Otar Koberidze and Lia Eliava appear in the ninety minute film, a Soviet production Leo Esakia finished in 1956.