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 ...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Avtandil Makharadze | ... | Varlam Aravidze / Abel Aravidze | |
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Ia Ninidze | ... | Guliko (as Iya Ninidze) |
| Zeinab Botsvadze | ... | Ketevan Barateli | |
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Ketevan Abuladze | ... | Nino Barateli |
| David Giorgobiani | ... | Sandro Barateli (as Edisher Giorgobiani) | |
| Kakhi Kavsadze | ... | Mikheil Koresheli | |
| Merab Ninidze | ... | Tornike | |
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Nino Zakariadze | ... | Elene Korisheli (as Nino Zaqariadze) |
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Nano Ochigava | ... | Ketevan as a child |
| Boris Tsipuria | |||
| Akaki Khidasheli | |||
| 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>
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Guliko: I protest! All you've heard here is a lie and slander!
Ketevan Barateli: Slander? Prove that it's a slander!
Prosecutor: You mean that the deceased should not be buried?
Ketevan Barateli: No, you must not bury him! Let the carrion crows tear him to pieces! Burying him means forgiving him, shutting our eyes to everything he had perpetrated. I publicly declare once again: If you don't dig him up, I will get him, I will ...
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In West Germany Repentance was broadcast by ZDF on 13 October 1987. The broadcast was received and widely seen in East Germany where the film was banned. East German television viewers reacted strongly as they saw parallels to their own regime. This reaction forced East German authorities and the East German press to react. Harald Wessel, second editor in chief of Neues Deutschland and the editor in chief of the Junge Welt, Hans-Dieter Schütt published editorials in their newspapers that tried to both denounce the film and to avoid anti-Soviet undertones. The situation was complicated by the fact that the editorials were for a film that was banned and should theoretically be unknown to East German readers. See more »Goofs
After Varlam's corpse has been reburied the second time, an iron cage is placed over his grave to protect it from further intrusion. But as the perpetrator starts to exhume him for the third time, there is no cage. See more »Quotes
Ketevan Barateli: On behalf of everyone who was unjustly punished, I demand that Varlam Aravidze be dug up from his grave by his own relatives.Guliko: I protest! All you've heard here is a lie and slander!
Ketevan Barateli: Slander? Prove that it's a slander!
Prosecutor: You mean that the deceased should not be buried?
Ketevan Barateli: No, you must not bury him! Let the carrion crows tear him to pieces! Burying him means forgiving him, shutting our eyes to everything he had perpetrated. I publicly declare once again: If you don't dig him up, I will get him, I will ...
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