Ocean 39-s Thirteen Qartulad -

In the winding, cobblestone streets of Old Tbilisi, where sulfur baths steam under ancient balconies, a man named Dato (the Georgian "Danny Ocean") sits across from Rati (his "Rusty"). They speak not in rapid-fire English, but in Qartulad — Georgian — with its rolling consonants and ancient script.

The target: Rezo's newly built casino shaped like the Golden Fleece, on the Batumi seaside. The gimmick: during the Rtveli , Rezo unveils a "diamond-encrusted wine horn" worth $50 million. Ocean 39-s Thirteen Qartulad

"Rezo, Gaumarjos! (Victory!)" he shouts. "In Qartulad tradition, a thief who steals during a supra must be forgiven if he offers a better toast." In the winding, cobblestone streets of Old Tbilisi,

Rati translates the problem: "Rezo, the casino owner in Batumi, took everything. Our money. Our pride. And he insulted Nino's khachapuri recipe." The gimmick: during the Rtveli , Rezo unveils

Dato sips chacha , the local grape vodka. "Then we don't just rob him. We humiliate him on the night of the Rtveli — the harvest festival. Every oligarch in the Caucasus will be watching."

"First, we flood the air with the scent of tklapi (fruit leather) to confuse the biometric sniffer dogs. Second, Gela's bell-device vibrates the quantum random-number generators into a predictable sequence — a prayer pattern, he calls it. Third, during the midnight toast to the 'health of our enemies,' Nino replaces the security feed not with a loop, but with a continuous shot from a 1987 Georgian film, 'Repentance' — so beautiful that guards watch it twice before noticing the vault is empty."

განძი სამ ოკეანეში (The Treasure of Three Oceans)