Repentance (1984)

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153 min - 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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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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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

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$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

Varlam Aravidze: You will grind to dust anyone who stands in your way. If you're struck on one cheek, you won't turn the other one, you'll strike back so hard that the other's neck is broken. Your kind is not capable of splitting! You don't give a damn about good and evil. It's not splitting you're worried about, it's fear that's killing you!
Abel Aravidze as an adult: What fear?
Varlam Aravidze: You fear yourself. All your life you've been after prestige, proud of your model family, and, suddenly, your world is collapsing.
Abel Aravidze as an adult: No!
Varlam Aravidze: Yes. Your father is thrown out of his grave, you're losing your power, your only son rebels against you. All that stood for the name of Abel Aravidze is slipping away from you. And you're left alone, helpless and weak.
Abel Aravidze as an adult: No! No!
Varlam Aravidze: Yes, you're afraid! You're being eaten up by your fear of loneliness. For a lonely unbeliever thinks only of death.
Abel Aravidze as an adult: Yes, I'm afraid! I'm surrounded by emptiness. All my life I've been trying to run away from it, pretending and lying. Both my family and my work are just self-deception, for I am afraid to be left alone with myself. Afraid to think.
Varlam Aravidze: About what?
Abel Aravidze as an adult: About what's most important. Who are you? What do you live for? What's the point of your existence? Who are you? What did you live for? And you? And you? Who are you? Who are you, Abel Aravidze? Abel Aravidze, Abel Aravidze...
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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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