Repentance

Monanieba

MS12

Genre

Drama

Director

Tengiz Abuladze

Run time

2h 33min

Cast

Avtandil Maharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze, Merab Ninidze, Ketevan Abuladze

The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. However, the corpse keeps returning, and the police eventually capture a local woman, who is accused of digging it up. She says that Varlam should never be laid to rest because he was responsible for a Stalin-like reign of terror that led to the disappearance of many of her friends...

"Repentance" (1984) being one of the first films to be released in the post-glasnost era, and one of the most controversial which was a huge success in the Soviet Union, which won three award at Cannes Film Festival and what achieved reasonable distribution abroad, almost unheard of for a Georgian film.

Georgia (USSR) 1984

Genre

Drama

Director

Tengiz Abuladze

Run time

2h 33min

Cast

Avtandil Maharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze, Merab Ninidze, Ketevan Abuladze

The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. However, the corpse keeps returning, and the police eventually capture a local woman, who is accused of digging it up. She says that Varlam should never be laid to rest because he was responsible for a Stalin-like reign of terror that led to the disappearance of many of her friends...

"Repentance" (1984) being one of the first films to be released in the post-glasnost era, and one of the most controversial which was a huge success in the Soviet Union, which won three award at Cannes Film Festival and what achieved reasonable distribution abroad, almost unheard of for a Georgian film.

Georgia (USSR) 1984

Info

Rating

Under 12 Not Recommended

Production year

1984

Global distributor

-

Local distributor

Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ

In cinema

11/6/2015