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
Repentance
Monanieba
MS12
Genre
Drama
Director
Tengiz Abuladze
Run time
2h 33min
Cast
Avtandil Maharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze, Merab Ninidze, Ketevan Abuladze
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
"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