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Repentance
Directed by
Tengiz Abuladze
PG
1987
2h 33m
Comedy
,
Drama
8.0
71%
90%
7.1
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Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
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Cast of Repentance
Avtandil Makharadze
Varlam Aravidze / Abel Aravidze
Iya Ninidze
Guliko
Zeinab Botsvadze
Ketevan Barateli
Ketevan Abuladze
Nino Barateli
Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani
Sandro Barateli
Kakhi Kavsadze
Mikheil Koresheli
Merab Ninidze
Tornike
Nino Zaqariadze
Elene Korisheli
Nano Ochigava
Young Ketevan
Gia Mataradze
Amiran Amiranashvili (II)
Marina Kakhiani
Mikheil Jojua
Tengiz Abuladze
Director / Writer
Nana Janelidze
Writer / Music
Rezo Kveselava
Writer
Mikhail Agranovich
Director Of Photography
Guliko Omadze
Editor
Repentance Ratings & Reviews
El Nuevo Herald (Miami)
Rene Jordan
Repentance is an admirable film for its cultural challenges, but it is also a challenge of patience onto its audience. [Full review in Spanish]
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
[Repentance] is lit with bursts of satiric humor, with music, bits of opera and great flights of surreal imagery, which only serve to intensify its growing horror. And it is never less than physically gorgeous.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Repentance would seem mordantly funny if its wit, like that of its central character, weren't also so cruel.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Its significance as a social and historical document far outstrips its value as art.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Its message is worth heeding everywhere. And its frontal attack on Stalinism makes it a landmark in Soviet film history.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Tengiz Abuladze's dreamlike allegorical fantasy about Stalinism, as well as despotism in general, is probably the best known and almost certainly one of the best Soviet films to have surfaced as a result of glasnost.
TV Guide
Repentance stands as one of the finest films to be released as a result of glasnost.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's worth more for its daring political statement against the totalitarian Soviet regime of Stalin than as a work of moving satire.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
A bold film from the Soviet Union, affirming the ethical values of religion and the cultural values of art.
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