Title: Helessa
Description: **Helessa, Or—Elijah, Was Elijah, The Fox Was a Fox, And The Sea Was Shimmering

 *A Laz Maritime Movie-Novel, Presented as Chronicles of the Felucca Kirbishi's Last Voyage, or, if You Prefer, as the Enlivened Paintings of the Laz Artist Hasan Helimishi*

 The book of movie novel by Mikho Mosulishvili

 Editor Tamar Lortqipanidze

 ​Web Programming & Design Lia Sulakvelidze

 Drawing on a cover Niko Pirosmani
 General manajer Tamara Nachkebia

 ISBN 978-9941-9261-1-2

 ISBN 978-9941-9261-2-9 (Synopsis for Helessa)

 Publishing House USTARI

 2012 

**LOGLINE**
(Content of the Book in One Phraze)

Taking advantage of May Kirbishi’s love, Yashar Badishi tries to uncover the set of directions of making the Kirbishi clan mysterious drug with the aim of selling the recipe to wealthy foreigners, Helen Meyers and Alfred Antopoulos.




**OUTLINE**

The oldest family of the [Laz people][1] from Sarpi, the Kirbishi family, possesses the recipe of making indispensable medicine curing people.


The Red Flower of Medea is the herb used by the Kirbishi family in making indespansable ointment, as follows:


For several centuries they have went to sea on their felucca sailing boat and grew this herb in the earthware pot on the deck to prevent disclosure of the mystery of their drug.​


Besides, medicine is made with the arrangement of mysterious rituals, and to that end, it is necessary to visit Romanian seaport of Constanta, the hamlet of Makriali in the Laz district of Turkey, and Gonio Fortress, the venues where the King of Colchis, Aeetes, laid to rest the parts of the remains of Absyrtus killed and fractured by Medea and Jason...​


Yashar Badishi tries to uncover the mystery of this drug aiming at selling this recipe to the wealthy foreigners, Helen Mayers and Alfred Antopoulos, and to that end he goes to any lengths using close relationship with the Kirbishi family and even love of May Kirbishi...


This is the reason of the rage from our Lord expressed through storms and gales...


Next year May Kirbishi having lost her relatives again goes to the sea on Kirbishi sail felucca and continues time-honored business of the family – and as a backdrop one can hear a song of their ancestors Helessa...


This movie novel was conceived as animated drawings of the gifted Laz artist, Hasan Helimishi...


Helessa tells us on the mystery that is part of your soul to be saved even at the expense of your life.

**AWARDS**​

August 27, 2012 - Win Level: [Silver Award][2] publishing house [Ustari][3] for movie-novel [Helessa+synopsis][4] by Mikho Mosulishvili on The Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award (Summit MEA) in Category: Lower Budget​


  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laz_people
  [2]: http://www.summitawards.com/winners/winner-search.html?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=0&sobi2Id=7200
  [3]: http://www.summitawards.com/winners/marketing-effectiveness/lower-budget/ustari-publishing.html
  [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helessa_(movie-novel)
Subjects: Fiction
Places: Sarpi, Georgia
People: Lazian people
Time periods: 2010