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Director:
Tengiz Abuladze
Writers:
Tengiz Abuladze (writer)
Nana Dzhanelidze (writer)
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Release Date:
1984 (Soviet Union) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 10 wins & 1 nomination more
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An astonishing portrait of a totalitarian monster more

Cast

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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 (as Levan Antadze)
Rezo Esadze
Mzia Makhviladze (as M. Makhazadze)
Amiran Amiranashvili
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Покаяние (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Pokayanie (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Repentance (USA)
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Runtime:
153 min
Language:
Georgian
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Company:
Qartuli Pilmi more

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Trivia:
Movie was ready for release in 1984, but it was banned until 1987 (premiere in Cannes). more

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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
An astonishing portrait of a totalitarian monster, 2 November 2006
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Author: gray4 from Somerset, England

This wonderful Georgian film emerged from the last years of the Soviet regime, but seems to have disappeared without trace. The final film of a trilogy by the veteran film-maker Tengiz Abuladze, it portrays a composite monster, Varlam (Hitler moustache, Mussolini shirt & braces, Stalin boots, Beria pince-nez) and his equally grotesque son Abel, both played by the same actor.

The film has a surrealist, dreamlike quality about it, framed by initial and final scenes in a cake-shop and with police almost comic in medieval armour. The main actions which initiate the plot are surrealist with the repeated exhumation of Varlam's corpse. The two monstrous central characters are no more than mayors of a small Georgian town - but there is nothing comic about their actions and the reign of terror they bring to the community. The elements of tyranny are revealed economically, with hints of atrocities and disappearances but only one brief torture scene. The overall message is that of personal responsibility. The tyrannical regime is not an anonymous bureaucracy but the deliberate creation of evil men. And the final repentance is a horrific recognition of those responsibilities. An unmissable film, beautifully made and superbly acted - if you can find it.

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