Sameba

An educationalist priest's attempt to promote literacy in a mountainous village is challenged by a brigade leader who views learning as a waste of time and a means to avoid actual work.

A love story about a boy's spiritual world. He is forbidden to be a believer and ridiculed for his religion. The situation takes place in the communist era, when Christianity was persecuted.

This Georgian drama seeks to renew and reinforce a sense of cultural and national identity as it examines a tragic event in the idyllic life of an aristocratic Georgian family. Much of the film focuses upon their happy and peaceful life of this family comprised of a young couple and their baby daughter Keto. Their life changes when two drifters come in. The two men (who seem to be Muslims from the Azerbaijan republic) are met with hospitality. They repay it by kidnapping baby Keto. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide