Research dossier · Arts & Letters

Before the Hurricane

1924 Georgian black-and-white silent film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera — Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas

Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionAug 3, 2026

Entity authorityQ16377067 ↗

Source-derived summary

Before the Hurricane (translit. Qarishkhlis tsin, Burevestnik in Russian) is a 1924 Soviet-era Georgian black-and-white silent film directed by Kote Marjanishvili based on a script by Shalva Dadiani.

Plot

The film is set in 1905 in a textile factory in Tiflis where two friends are working, Lado and Tade. Lado falls in love with Tade's sister, Tasya. Prince Rostam orders his servants to bring her to him. The friends manage to free the girl and after this they become part of the revolutionary underground ...

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Before the Hurricane” as 1924 Georgian black-and-white silent film. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924, 1905—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1924-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Before, Hurricane and Georgian can be independently traced.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1924 Georgian black-and-white silent film. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16377067. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1924 and 1905.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for

Identifying works and editions
Tracing reception history
Finding collection records

Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

Establish the record: confirm the title “Before the Hurricane”, its source revision and the description used here.
Expand the search: follow Before the Hurricane primary sources, Before the Hurricane archive and Before research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Before the Hurricane”?
Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?

Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Before the Hurricane history →Before the Hurricane primary sources →Before the Hurricane archive →Before research →Hurricane research →Georgian research →black-and-white research →

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Before the Hurricane” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.