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In the non-Georgian population of Georgia, over the centuries, its own mentality has been formed, i.e. non-Georgian population has always behaved ambiguously. It should be emphasized that not only those who consider it their home, but also those who are trying to appropriate the best "apartments of this hotel" lived and live in Georgia. At one time, Mikhail Javakhishvili, in his allegorical novel "Jacos Hiznebi" ("Khizans Jacko" - "Jacko Lodgers" - in Russian refuge, show itself loyal and humble servant. And you, in your naivety and carelessness, open the door for him, provide food and shelter. And he will gain strength, become carefree and arrogant,
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Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.