Repentance / "Georgia-Film" Studio ; directed by Tengiz Abuladze.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Abulaże, Tʻengiz, 1924- director.

Ruscico (Firm), distributor.

Kinostudia Kʻartʻuli Pʻilmi, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Georgian

Russian

Subjects (All):

Dictators--Drama.

Dictators.

Totalitarianism--Drama.

Totalitarianism.

Repentance--Drama.

Repentance.

Soviet Union--History--Drama.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 minutes)

Other Title:

Monanieba

Place of Publication:

Moscow, Russia : Ruscico, 1987.

Language Note:

In Georgian and Russian with English subtitles.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This last Tengiz Abuladze film is crowning the trilogy started by the motion pictures "The Supplication" and "The Wishing Tree". In the Soviet Union, the film was put into distribution only as late as 1987, during the "glasnost" period. The film's structure is somewhat whimsical: the action develops, as it were, outside the time framework, with no specified indication to the 1930s. In the character of dictator Varlam Aravidze, the traits of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Beria are equally recognizable. Three generations of one family are paying for the sins of their fathers. In a totalitarian society, the first to perish are the artists, like Sandro Barateli and his wife. Years later, their daughter, Keti, avenges the death of her parents.

Participant:

Avtandil Makharadze, Iya Ninidze, Merab Ninidze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Veriko Anjaparidz.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 11, 2017).

Nominated 1988 Golden Globes, Best Foreign Language Film

Won 1987 Cannes Film Festival, FIPRESCI Prize

Won 1987 Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize of the Jury

Won 1987 Cannes Film Festival, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Nominated 1987 Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or

OCLC:

1022761764