Tsarsulis sashinelebani

Set against the volatile backdrop of the 1905 revolution in Georgia, Tsarsulis sashinelebani (Horrors of the Past) is a stark examination of the systemic theft of human dignity. The narrative follows a young peasant who finds himself trapped in a cruel irony: while his hands are calloused from tending a bountiful harvest, the fruit of his labor belongs entirely to a local landowner. Left with nothing but a plot of barren, unyielding dirt that cannot sustain his family, the protagonist is driven by the gnawing ache of hunger and the weight of systemic poverty. His desperation eventually forces a migration to the city—a move framed not as a pursuit of the 'Georgian Dream,' but as a final, frantic escape from certain starvation. The film meticulously tracks the psychological erosion of a man who realizes that whether he is under the sun of the countryside or the soot of the city, he is little more than fuel for a machine he did not build.