and destruction.
Protect from an evil eye!
I must hurry, Zurab.
I need to take care of
our goods in Gulansharo.
Otherwise, in case of war,
we'll be ruined.
I leave you in charge here,
in Surami.
Take care of our home, but don't
forget about our princedom's needs.
Help it with food...
with building materials...
so that no one could reproach us.
I lay my hopes on you, Zurab.
Father, let me speak.
Please, cross yourself our Christian
way, before you start on the road.
It's not the time for prayers.
Am I to blame for something, father?
Mind your business.
She lives over there!
- All the way up?
- Yes.
Let the Czar's envoys pass!
Make way for the Czar's envoys!
Make way!
Step back!
What misfortune has brought you here?
Great misfortune. We cannot
build the Surami Fortress.
The Surami Fortress?
We've come a long way.
We seek your advice.
We've brought you
the Surami earth and water.
Save us.
Tell us what to do.
Go away.
We came to you with a great hope.
The Grand Prince sent us.
Get out of my house.
You all go.
And you stay.
Take a seat.
Here is a basin.
What is it that you brought?
The Surami water and earth.
Pour the earth out.
Now pour the water out.
What else did you bring?
Gold. The people sent it.
Gold.
Drop the gold into the basin.
Mix it.
Mix it!
Look.
The Surami Fortress!
It doesn't crumble!
It means it can be built?
Yes, it can.
But how?
The gold should be bricked in.
Where can our people get gold?
You didn't understand.
Poor creature.
Gold is a tall,
handsome...
blue-eyed...
young man.
Now you understand?
I do, Vardo! I understand!
A tall, blue-eyed...
I understand!
The Surami Fortress will be built!
It will be built!
What is it, Zurab?
What did she say?
What happened?
Nothing.
What do you mean, nothing?
Why don't you say something?
- What did she say?
- Let's go.
Have you swallowed your tongue?
What's the matter? Explain it.
What did she say?
"If a people has a young man
who is capable of being bricked in
alive in a fortress wall,
then this country and its people
are unconquerable."
Niko Lordkipanidze.
Oh God!
Why did I live to see this?
Bless me, piper Simon.
Oh God...
Mother Earth.
Where is he? Where?
Here. Right here.
When you were born,
I made a blue blanket for you,
for you were my son, too.
I sent you to your death.
To your death.
Forgive me.
But you must know that it was
not revenge.
I've become part
of your immortality.
My son!
My son!
Great Czar,
allow me to kneel
and kiss the earth.
I'm a wretched mother.
Mother of the entombed young man,
my only son.
Take my life too.
People! Bow down
before this great deed.
Take your swords
and guard your country,
as this noble heart
entombed in a fortress did.
Come up, young man.
Yes, sire.
Take this sword and bow down
before the martyred mother.
Bow down all!
The high-born and the low-born!
The wealthy and the poor!
Be worthy
of her holy prayers!
I, the Czar and warrior,
equal among you,
order you to stop lamenting.
Light up the sky!
May there be light!
It stands!
It stands!
The fortress stands!
O, the Surami Fortress!
I appeal to you in anguish.
My son is entombed here.
Protect his immortal peace...
Starring
VERIKO ANDZHAPARIDZE
DODO ABASHIDZE
SOFIKO CHIAURELI
DEDUKHANA TSERODZE
TAMAR TSITSISHVILI
ZURAB KIPSHIDZE
LEVAN UCHAINESHVILI
LEILA ALIBEGASHVILI
and others
The End