"ეს ამბავი გამოგონილია. მაგრამ ღვინო ნამდვილია." (“This story is invented. But the wine is real.”) The story blends the cool, synchronized rhythm of Soderbergh’s Ocean’s films with the warm, melancholic, and toasting-heavy soul of Georgian cinema — where revenge is served not with bullets, but with a perfect supra and a longer memory than any vault can hold.
Dato sips chacha , the local grape vodka. "Then we don't just rob him. We humiliate him on the night of the Rtveli — the harvest festival. Every oligarch in the Caucasus will be watching."
The target: Rezo's newly built casino shaped like the Golden Fleece, on the Batumi seaside. The gimmick: during the Rtveli , Rezo unveils a "diamond-encrusted wine horn" worth $50 million. Ocean 39-s Thirteen Qartulad
The plan, told in the measured, poetic cadence of Georgian storytelling:
"Rezo, Gaumarjos! (Victory!)" he shouts. "In Qartulad tradition, a thief who steals during a supra must be forgiven if he offers a better toast." "ეს ამბავი გამოგონილია
Dato keeps nothing. He returns to the sulfur baths, lights a cigarette, and tells the ghost of his father: "We didn't steal. We just redistributed the poetry."
As police arrive, the crew simply walks out the service entrance, blending into the crowd of grape-treaders singing folk songs. Dato sips chacha , the local grape vodka
They divide the diamond horn. But instead of cash, each takes one stone to fund a small thing: a new qvevri for Nino's winery, a film archive for Rati, a medical clinic for Lasha's border village.