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Our work on the database has been guided by the hope that it might assist in identifying films long considered lost. A recent discovery linking unidentified nitrate fragments from Cineteca di Bologna to a film by Evgenii Bauer not only expands the archival record but also brings into view the canonical director’s engagement with a form of sensational melodrama with which he is not typically associated.

The following text is an English translation of an article by Georgian film scholar Dr. Paata Iakashvili (1955–2022) published in 1977 in Georgian-language journal Kino [კინო]. It provides little-known facts and personal accounts about the lost film ბერიკაობა-ყეენობა/ Berikaoba-Keenoba (1909, director Aleqsandre Tsutsunava).