Father of a Soldier

“A soldier by duty, a father by love.”

Giorgiy Makharashvili (Sergo Zakariadze) is a Georgian peasant who hears his soldier son is lying wounded in a hospital, and he sets out to see him. The boy has already been sent back to the front, so Giorgiy, unwilling to go home, follows the Red Army west, joining its push. Rezo Chkheidze's film puts a man with no training and no son in sight on the same road as the war itself.