Repentance
(1984)
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Repentance
(1984)
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| Avtandil Makharadze | ... |
Varlam Aravidze /
Abel Aravidze
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Iya Ninidze | ... |
Guliko
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Zeinab Botsvadze | ... |
Ketevan Barateli
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Ketevan Abuladze | ... |
Nino Barateli
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Edisher Giorgobiani | ... |
Sandro Barateli
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Kakhi Kavsadze | ... |
Mikheil Koresheli
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| Merab Ninidze | ... |
Tornike
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Nino Zaqariadze | ... |
Elene Korisheli
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Nano Ochigava | ... |
Ketevan as a child
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Boris Tsipuria |
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Akaki Khidasheli |
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Leo Antadze | ... |
(as Levan Antadze)
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Rezo Esadze |
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Mzia Makhviladze | ... |
(as M. Makhazadze)
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Amiran Amiranashvili |
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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. But 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... Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
My only complaint about Tengiz Abuladze's REPENTANCE (English title) is that I am uncertain what was real and what was fantasy. However, since this was undoubtedly his intention, I cannot properly call it a complaint. Outside of David Lynch films, I have never seen more perfectly executed dream imagery than that of REPENTANCE; the beauty of these sequences is accentuated by the surreal atmosphere of the various dreamers' waking lives. The cast is uniformly excellent, the premise unique, and much of the dialogue resonates with beauty, despair and universal truth, often mingled with humor. No character is utterly devoid of sympathy, nor is any character entirely sympathetic. All is ambiguous, just as it is in our own so-called "reality".