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7.5/10   643 votes
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Director:
Tengiz Abuladze
Writers:
Tengiz Abuladze (writer)
Nana Dzhanelidze (writer)
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Contact:
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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
User Comments:
A very good film more (18 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)

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
Dato Kemkhadze ... Abel as a child
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Veriko Andjaparidze
R. Baramidze
Amiran Buadze
Dato Dvalishvili (as David Dvalishvili)
Ioseb Gogichaishvili
G. Gogoberidze
N. Javakhishvili (as N. Zhavakishvili)
Mikheil Jojua (as M. Zhozhua)
Marina Kakhiani (as M. Kakhyani)
Lia Kapanadze
Zurab Kavtaradze
Beso Khidasheli
Kh. Khouba
Rusudan Kiknadze
T. Koshkadze
Kote Makharadze (as K. Makhazadze)
Paliko Nozadze (as P. Nozadze)
G. Otarashvili
Dato Papuashvili
Tristan Saralidze
M. Shembeli
Shota Skhirtladze
T. Tavaryani
Tamari Tsitsishvili
Yuri Vasadze
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Directed by
Tengiz Abuladze 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Tengiz Abuladze  writer
Nana Dzhanelidze  writer
Rezo Kveselava  writer

Original Music by
Nana Dzhanelidze 
 
Cinematography by
Mikhail Agranovich 
 
Film Editing by
Guliko Omadze 
 
Production Design by
Giorgi Miqeladze 
 
Set Decoration by
Navruz Abdul-ogli 
 
Makeup Department
Guram Barnabishvili .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Leomer Gugushvili .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ts. Jervalidze .... assistant director
P. Milorava .... assistant director
L. Tsipuriya .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Dimitri Gedevanishvili .... sound
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Giorgi Gersamia .... camera operator
Guram Sadzaglishvili .... camera operator
Valeri Shaveri .... camera operator
Solomon Shenzelia .... camera operator
 
Other crew
Nana Dzhanelidze .... associate director
Suliko Gabisonia .... associate director
Neli Kutateladze .... associate director
 

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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

Fun Stuff

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). 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. more

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16 out of 22 people found the following comment useful.
A very good film, 9 April 2001
10/10
Author: (bbcd64@hotmail.com) from Paris, France

This is a very good film. It works on several levels. I don't know whether this was intended by it's authors or no, but the general outline of the film has obvious Alice in the Wonderland (or Through the Looking-Glass) allusion. The confectioner woman imagines (or dreams about) a story of revenge and justice (a real cruel fairy tale adventure full of evil and good characters, colorful and strange images) and as in `Alice' right when the story gets kind of `out of control' (grandson kills himself with grandfathers riffle, son digs out the corpse of his father.) we get back to the cosy room of confectioner, from where our adventures to the past and future have begun.

It was really interesting to see the story of Totalitarian regime through this `fairy tale' angle. They make a lot of films that are meant to be much more historically precise than `Repentance', but most of them are flat and look more like TV dramatizations of some definite actual events than the works of art. And `Repentance' is an art-film in a very good sense of this word.

The closing sequence of Old Woman walking up the street (looking for the Temple - justice, freedom, happiness?) accompanied by heavenly classic music is one of the most beautiful film episodes I've ever seen.

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