Repentance (Pokayanie) (1984)

9	Listal rating
7.5	IMDB rating

Release date : 14 December 1984

1980s (1), Communism (1), Genocide (1), Spiritual Cinema (1), Cannes Winner (1), Sort (1), SnP (1), Drama (1), Revenge (1), Crime (1), Russian (1), Surreal (1)

Description

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 ... (more)

Directed by

Tengiz Abuladze

Starring (View all) :

Avtandil Makharadze

Varlam Aravidze / Abel Aravidze

Guliko

Ketevan Barateli

Nino Barateli

Sandro Barateli

Mikheil Koresheli

Tornike

Elene Korisheli

Ketevan as a child

Ketevan as a child

Written by (View all) :

Tengiz Abuladze

writer

Nana Dzhanelidze

writer

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