The film by Georgian Kote Mikaberidze is a satire of the Soviet bureaucracy, full of imaginative visuals and camera tricks. When an employee is fired from his job and his wife threatens him with divorce, he must find an influential bureaucrat who can provide a letter of recommendation, or “grandmother” to help him. This is one of the most delightfully irreverent and quirky comedies of the silent era, considered central to the Georgian avant-garde movement and banned by the Soviet regime for almost 40 years.