The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.

Pierre Richard
as Pascal Ichak

Micheline Presle
as Marcelle Ichak

Nino Kirtadzé
as Cecilia Abachidze

Jean-Yves Gautier
as Anton Gogoladze

Temuri Kamkhadze
as Zigmund Gogladze

Ramaz Chkhikvadze
as Anton Gogoladze

Guram Pirtskhalava
as Platoon

Kakhi Kavsadze
as Le Président

Khatuna Ioseliani
as Mme Kollontai

Marina Kakhiani
as Secrétaire à la tête rasée