Repentance (1984)

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153 min - Comedy | Drama - 1984 (Soviet Union)

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The day after the fumeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied... See full summary »

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Avtandil Makharadze	...	Varlam Aravidze / Abel Aravidze
	Ya Ninidze	...	Guliko
	Zeinab Botsvadze	...	Ketevan Barateli
	Ketevan Abuladze	...	Nino Barateli
	Edisher Giorgobiani	...	Sandro Barateli
	Kakhi Kavsadze	...	Mikheil Koresheli
	Merab Ninidze	...	Tornike
	Nino Zaqariadze	...	Elene Korisheli
	Nano Ochigava	...	Ketevan as a child
	Boris Tsipuria
	Akaki Khidasheli
	Leo Antadze
	Rezo Esadze
	Mzia Makhviladze
	Amiran Amiranashvili

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Storyline

The day after the fumeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the police eventually capture a local woman accusing her of digging it up. She says that Varlam should never be laid to rest, as when he was alive he was responsible for a Stalin-like reign of terror that led to the disappearance of many of her friends... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>

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Comedy | Drama

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Country:

Georgia | Soviet Union

Language:

Georgian | Russian (only a few words) | Italian (song lyrics) | German (song lyrics)

Release Date:

1984 (Soviet Union) See more »

Also Known As:

Ångern See more »

Box Office

Gross:

$215,496 (USA)

Company Credits

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Qartuli Pilmi, Qartuli Telepilmi, Sovexportfilm See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

153 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

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Trivia

Director Tengiz Abuladze stated that the idea to this film was based on a real incident (a local dignitary's corpse being exhumed and placed at the family's porch in the western Georgian region of Mingrelia). See more »

Goofs

Anachronisms: In the surrealist scene where the painter (Sandro Barateli) and the disgraced official (Mikheil Koresheli) meet and Mikheil explains the absurd charges for which he is being tried, a jet airplane can be heard passing overhead. See more »

Quotes

Old Woman: Excuse me, does this street lead to a church? I want to know whether this street leads to a church.
Ketevan Barateli: No, this is Varlam Street, and it doesn't lead to a church.
Old Woman: Then what do you need it for? Why have a road that doesn't lead to a church?
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Featured in "The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episode #1.12" (2011) See more »

Repentance (1984)
Monanieba (original title)

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