Synopsis
At the beginning of the19 th century, the Russian Empire abolished the independence of the Georgian kingdom and the autocephaly of the Georgian Church. To save the tradition of Georgian choral singing, the music needed to be transcribed into conventional notation. This was successfully done by Philimon Qoridze, a soloist at La Scala known as Philippo Coreggio, who managed to transcribe 5,500 chorals over a period of 28 years. After his death, the job of caring for and protecting the music, as well as carrying out additional transcription, was taken up by printer Estate Kereselidze. This period coincided with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. He had to hide his volumes of notated choral music a number of times, copy and even restore them. Finally he packed 40 volumes of music into iron boxes and buried them in the ground... Fourteen ancient chorals were recorded specially for the film by well-known ensembles...
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