Nino and Iliko

Two dancers in love define a nation.

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In the newly Sovietised Georgia, where fear and surveillance reigns and people are executed at night, two young dancers Nino and Iliko meet each other on the stage of Tbilisi Opera & Ballet Theatre. Love is born together with the goal to start a dance company inspired by the national folklore which will later change the course of Georgian culture.

Nino & Iliko is set in the period between 1925 and 1957. While telling the love story of two talented dancers, intertwined with beautiful choreography, the series focuses on the couple’s inner and outer struggles on the way of creating the “Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet''. It examines how the totalitarian system breaks people and changes them once and for all.

Does Nino stay true to her values and beliefs along the way? In the end, what does the couple sacrifice to beat one of the most brutal political systems in history, in order to create art that goes beyond its place of origin and outlives the change of regimes?