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Repentance

Original title: Monanieba
  • 1984
  • PG
  • 2h 33m
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Repentance (1984)
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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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 an... Read allVarlam, 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.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.

  • Director
    • Tengiz Abuladze
  • Writers
    • Tengiz Abuladze
    • Nana Janelidze
    • Rezo Kveselava
  • Stars
    • Avtandil Makharadze
    • Zeinab Botsvadze
    • Ia Ninidze
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    • IMDb RATING
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    5.5K
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    • Director
      • Tengiz Abuladze
    • Writers
      • Tengiz Abuladze
      • Nana Janelidze
      • Rezo Kveselava
    • Stars
      • Avtandil Makharadze
      • Zeinab Botsvadze
      • Ia Ninidze
    • 33User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 12 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Avtandil Makharadze
    Avtandil Makharadze
    • Varlam Aravidze…
    Zeinab Botsvadze
    Zeinab Botsvadze
    • Ketevan Barateli
    Ia Ninidze
    Ia Ninidze
    • Guliko
    • (as Iya Ninidze)
    Ketevan Abuladze
    • Nino Barateli
    David Giorgobiani
    David Giorgobiani
    • Sandro Barateli
    • (as Edisher Giorgobiani)
    Kakhi Kavsadze
    Kakhi Kavsadze
    • Mikheil Koresheli
    Merab Ninidze
    Merab Ninidze
    • Tornike
    Nino Zakariadze
    • Elene Korisheli
    • (as Nino Zaqariadze)
    Nato Ochigava
    • Ketevan as a child
    Boris Tsipuria
    Boris Tsipuria
    Akaki Khidasheli
    Akaki Khidasheli
    Leo Antadze
    Leo Antadze
    • Mose
    • (as Levan Antadze)
    Rezo Esadze
    • Apollo
    Mzia Makhviladze
      Amiran Amiranashvili
      • Kaikhosro Doksopulo
      Dato Kemkhadze
      • Abel as a child
      Veriko Anjaparidze
      Veriko Anjaparidze
        Revaz Baramidze
          • Director
            • Tengiz Abuladze
          • Writers
            • Tengiz Abuladze
            • Nana Janelidze
            • Rezo Kveselava
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          User reviews33

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          • Trivia
            Varlam Aravidze's appearance is made of a mix of different despots: Beria (pince-nez glasses), Stalin (haircut), Hitler (moustache), Mussolini (dark shirt, braces).
          • Goofs
            After Varlam's corpse has been reburied the second time, an iron cage is placed over his grave to protect it from further intrusion. But as the perpetrator starts to exhume him for the third time, there is no cage.
          • Quotes
            • Female Voice: Shortly before his death, Einstein raised his voice for the last time to tell the world of the tragedy of a modern scientist. This was his testament: "The fate of a modern scientist is tragic. His inspiration leads him to clarity and inner independence. By almost superhuman efforts he had forged a weapon of his own social enslavement and destruction of his personality. The situation even reached a point where the political authorities had muzzled him. Has the time really passed when the scientist's intellectual freedom and independent research could enlighten and enrich people's lives? Has he forgotten, in his blind quest for the scientific truth, about his moral responsibility before humanity and about his honour? Our world is under threat of a crisis the scope of which seems not to be realized by those in authority. The released power of the atom changed everything but our way of thinking, and thus we keep sliding down to a catastrophe never seen heretofore. For the mankind to survive, we have to learn to think in a new way. The most difficult task of our time is to avert this threat. At this decisive moment, I'll be appealing to you with all my feeble capacity."
          • Connections
            Featured in The Other Day 1961-2003: Our Era: Namedni 1987 (1997)
          • Soundtracks
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          Details

          • Release date
            • May 18, 1987 (Denmark)
          • Country of origin
            • Soviet Union
          • Official site
            • Official site (Japan)
          • Languages
            • Georgian
            • Russian
            • Italian
            • German
          • Also known as
            • Die Reue
          • Filming locations
            • Tbilisi, Georgia
          • Production companies
            • Georgian-Film
            • Gosteleradio USSR
            • Qartuli Telepilmi
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          Box office

          • Gross US & Canada
            • $215,496
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          Tech specs

          • Runtime
            • 2h 33m(153 min)
          • Color
            • Color
          • Sound mix
            • Mono
          • Aspect ratio
            • 1.37 : 1

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