Repentance
1984·Soviet Union (USSR)·153 min.
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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...
DirectorTengiz Abuladze
MusicNana Janelidze
CinematographyMikhail Agranovich
CastAvtandil Makharadze·Ya Ninidze·Zeinab Botsvadze·Ketevan Abuladze·Edisher Giorgobiani·Kakhi Kavsadze·Merab Ninidze·Nino Zaqariadze
Original titleMonanieba (Repentance)