Repentance

Director: Tengiz Abuladze

Writer: Tengiz Abuladze,Nana Janelidze,Rezo Kveselava

Countries of origin: Soviet Union

Language: Georgian, Russian, Italian, German

Release date: May 18, 1987

Sound mix: Mono

Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1

Also known as: Die Reue

Покаяние is a 153-minute drama film directed by Tengiz Abuladze . The film, starring Avtandil Makharadze , Zeinab Botsvadze , Merab Ninidze , etc., was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May 1987.

The film is the third in Tengiz Abuladze's "Ablaze Trilogy", which tells the story of the mayor of a small town whose body was repeatedly exhumed and placed in his son's garden. corpse. The women in court said the mayor should not be buried. His Stalinist rule led to the destruction of churches and the persecution and exile of many innocent people .

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By Marlin 2022-11-02 22:41:09

the director said

Known as the "First Spring Swallow" of the Soviet film reform, "Repentance" is the first of a trilogy by Cengiz Abradze, a famous contemporary director of the Soviet Union, a popular actor of the Soviet Union, a Lenin Prize winner and a recipient of the State Prize of the Georgian Republic. Three. The first two are "Prayer" and "Wish Tree". Ablaze is one of the representatives of contemporary "poetry cinema". His works always show a stunning beauty. Laughter and tears, joy and sorrow,...
By Zane 2022-06-17 22:50:34

What will happen to the world if mankind loses faith?

When the sworn declaration turns into the devil's incantation, and the appearance of the red heart cannot hide the rotten essence, what can we rely on to maintain the morality that human beings should most not degenerate? At the end of "Repentance", Ablaze seems to give a succinct answer, is this the revelation that social evolution has brought us?
In fact, the film does not appear to be struggling because of the heavy subject matter, on the contrary, it is smooth and magical from...
By Reva 2022-06-17 21:29:56

Gorbachev and "Repentance"

In the autumn of 1986, after censoring the film "Repentance," Gorbachev confided this secret to three interviewers from the Italian Communist Party: There were several scenes in the film that he watched with tears in his eyes. He said a scene in the film - the secret police knocking on an innocent musician's door to throw him in jail without any justifiable reason - reminded him of what his grandmother had told him about the day his grandfather was arrested Story of the night. Later, Gorbachev...
By Russell 2022-06-17 17:00:59

When Stone meets Tarkovsky

Sometimes prejudice will bring you some losses. For example, when it comes to the films of the former Soviet Union, we always think that the best ones are the works of several big directors and big studios in the Russian Federation. In fact, some small republics also have excellent films, such as Stalin's hometown Georgia. My previous knowledge of Georgian films was only the "27 Missing Kisses", which was a picturesque and childlike film, but was accused of being a pornographic film by the...
By Meaghan 2022-06-17 15:15:29

Digging, Throwing, and Suicide

An intellectual film with an easy-to-understand plot, it now seems to be a genre film exclusive to the Iron Curtain country, enough to satisfy the imagination of various classes and the outside world about the system. It doesn't need any footnotes, arguing that the existence of such a thing has become common sense in itself. So when such a film is played, it conveys such an attitude: "I don't care whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway." In fact, it is arrogant and unreasonable....

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By Kaylah 2023-09-24 06:19:23

I really don't like it, it's too heavy. 73...
By Breana 2023-09-18 17:50:05

low cost, absurd, hideaway, historical,...
By Eulalia 2023-09-13 13:21:42

The male lead's beard is a bit disgusting, but the rest of the politicization is ingenious and...
By Michel 2023-09-10 20:08:28

Good movie, just a little...
By Deja 2023-09-06 11:46:20

No! It's Varlam Street and it doesn't lead to a church So why do you need it...

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Ketevan Barateli: I'm telling you that Aravidze will not rest in the ground. As soon as I'm released, I'll dig him up.

Prosecutor: I hope that Ms. Barateli is not the primitive creature that believes it's possible to achieve a moral objective by an immoral act, by insulting a deceased.

Ketevan Barateli: It's possible, because Aravidze is not dead!

Prosecutor: You think... he's alive?

Ketevan Barateli: Yes, he's alive! And as you defend him, he goes on living and corrupting the society.

Prosecutor: Just a minute. Excuse me. So you're asserting that he's alive?

Ketevan Barateli: Yes.
Ketevan Barateli: Evening, spring, and shadows clumping, On the branch a bird is jumping. May a new dream me enfold.

Tornike: Moon has waned Earth to behold. I'm Tornike Aravidze, Varlam Aravidze's grandson.

Ketevan Barateli: What do you want?

Tornike: I came... I came to ask your forgiveness.

Ketevan Barateli: I'm not the G-d to give absolution.

Tornike: I fired at you. I'm a murderer.

Ketevan Barateli: Oh G-d, what a fateful star I was born under, if I have made even you, an innocent boy, a murderer? Evening, spring, and shadows clumping, On the branch a bird is jumping.

Tornike: Are you making fun of me?

Ketevan Barateli: I'm crazy, don't you know it? Crazy. I'm really crazy. Tomorrow they'll come, take me by my arms and drag me to a lunatic asylum.
Abel Aravidze as an adult: May your name be cursed... as your life and deeds, Abel Aravidze! What have you done!Monster! May your blood... turn to water... and your bread... to dust! May your flesh... burn in Hell's fire... and not be honored... like your father... with an earthly burial! Why were you born... devil incarnate... Abel Aravidze? And why was your father born? And your son? It's grown so dark, it's pitch dark! Oh G-d, all this is so senseless!

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