The way home for Aleksandr Rekhviashvili is not charted in the conventional sense. It takes the viewer along some peculiar roads and across a unique landscape: Georgian history and legend, politics and social stratification, religion and ethics. Allusive, stylized, and allegorical from beginning to end, The Way Home is in part a tribute to Rekhviashvili's favorite director, Pasolini, especially to The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966). Together with the short film Nutsa (1971) and the widely acclaimed Georgian Chronicles of the XX Century (1979), The Way Home (completed in 1981, released in 1987) closes a triptych of films that represents Rekhviashvili's poetic contemplation of Georgia's past. It makes extensive use of poems by Bella Akhmadulina (the major female poet of the cultural "Thaw" of the 50s/60s) and of sets by Amir Kakabadze (the son of David Kakabadze, the Georgian avant-garde painter). As with all his films, The Way Home is controlled by Rekhviashvili both as director and cameraman.