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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| Avtandil Makharadze | ... | Varlam Aravidze / Abel Aravidze | |
| 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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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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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
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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A very philosophical movie with easily traceable references to Stalin and Beria but still a general study in tyranny and victimization, beautifully filmed and masterly acted.