How Long Is “Life is Be”?

The main characters in the film live in Telavi (Eastern Georgia) in neighborhood to each other. Two German men. One of them plays the piano at the Charity House. He is a former fireman. He has saved Tsinandali Museum from burning. He lives in an abandoned canning factory and tries to set a chicken farm but all the time he is robbed. It is already 20 years that electricity supply was cut for another "soviet" German man. He refused all capitalistic benefits as a protest! He invented a stove which produces electricity. He calls his half-fallen apart house the symbol of “the Broken Soviet Union” and he considers himself as the museum exhibit.