"From the "GOSFILMFOND" cinematheque" "The Suram Fortress" "Cinematheque of the People's Commission Georgia, 1922" "Novel - legend by DANIIL CHONKADZE" "Written and directed by IVAN PERESTIANI" "Director of Photography B. SAVELYEV" "Author's dreams..." "The serfs." "Bastards!" "In the evening Maria finds out that she just became a widow." "There is no justice!" "Neither in Heaven or on Earth!" "Your reward is in Heaven." "The landowner ... a month later..." "I sold your children to the priest, you'll bring them to his place tonight." "Maria decides to run away with her children." "I'm taking the children to their new master." "At Imereti." "Dishonored." "The slave owners, the Zereteli Princes." "You have been talking to the servants again!" "The dog faithful to its masters." "Tonight you will kidnap that lady's baby." "And you will take him to my sister in Tbilisi." "You must come tonight at our masters' garden." "Under the moonlight." "Waiting uselessly." "At Tbilisi Princess Muhranskaja's palace." "The Duke sent him here for being educated." "The baby's name is Durmishhan." "A few years after..." "Spring is coming." "The bells call the people to pray and repent." "Maria's children, who ran away to Tbilisi," "Had grown up and they are helping their mother." "The marketplace in the ancient Tbilisi." "Recluse." "She didn't confess for ten years now." "The secret was becoming a heavy burden." "Follow her and see where she lives." "The secret of confession wasn't respected." "The master discovered where his servants were hiding." "Tie them up!" "The master's entertainment." "This is infamous and shameful!" "I'm leaving!" "Mother..." "Kill him!" "Revenge." "Farewell, my country." "Many years have passed." "The Duchess's pupil, the maidservant Vardua." "Anna's son, Durmishhan." "She drowned, and he was adopted by the Duchess Muhranovskaja." "Do you really love him that much?" "I'll see that you get married, but first I'll help you to become independent." "You hope to become a merchant?" "I'll give you some money and a horse..." "Go and find your happiness." "In the morning." "He's coming!" "You must swear that you'll never forget me." "Hey, Durmishhan!" "She had a bad feeling about his departure." "This is how these two men met" "Brought together by a tragic destiny." "In Suram Osman-Agi had a little daughter." "Her name was Gajane." "They are coming!" "After lunch." "Following desert roads she went to see the witch." "At the witch." "Take a look here." "Poor me!" "As a matter of fact..." "After leaving everything in Durmishhan's hands," "Osman, who appreciated him very much, gave him his daughter to marry." "Georgian party." "Caucasian dance." "Female dance." "Georgian fight." "...I am guilty of getting married  without your blessing..." "That night." "Mother, teach me your ways, so that I can have my revenge." "Dozens of years have passed..." "Time was flying," "Durmishhan became a respected merchant" "One day a visitor arrived to see him in Tbilisi." "During the conversation the guest mentioned the famous witch named Vardua." "Forgotten..." "They loved their only son very much, they were spoiling him" "At the Mzheti palace." "My King, here's what we've seen along our borders." "At Ardagan in the Kura valley the Turks were descending." "Rebuild all our fortresses in the mountain passes!" "Rebuild the fortress of Suram" "Near the fortress walls." "There were only a few more bricks to lay." "It's the second time this happens." "This is a bad sign." "The wife and his child said goodbye to Durmishhan as he was leaving for a long trip to buy some merchandise." "Take good care of our son!" "The fortress was being rebuilt for the third time." "The Tsar gathered The Council of Nobles and Wise Men of the People." "It came crumbling down three times, we'll rebuild it again" "My Tsar, go to Vardua, she knows everything." "Take her advice" "The Tsar accepts the proposal." "Avlabar." "Vardua's courtyard." "It has always been like this" "Sit here!" "Listen, at Suram there is Durmishhan, the merchant" "He's got a son" "...It already happened anyway... we have to close this boy into the walls..." "Near the coasts of Anatolia Durmishhan was being attacked by pirates." "Back at home a tragedy is taking place." "Obscurity, ignorance, superstition" "Bad news" "She was going mad." "He is here." "He is high up there my son, Zurab!" "I will find that evil woman!" "Give me a horse!" "He is high up there my son, Zurab!" "Did you tell them to close my son into the walls?" "Evil woman, what did he ever do to you?" "Take a good look at me, Durmishhan!" "Vardua?" "Hold me in your arms, my love, the way you did a long time ago." "Time erases the past, relentlessly." "Only some old ruins are the witnesses of a dark age in which a beautiful country was fighting for freedom." "THE END"