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Tengiz ABULADZE

Тенгиз АБУЛАДЗЕ

Tenguiz ABOULADZE

USSR (Georgia), 1984, 153 mn

Colour, fiction

Repentance

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Покаяние

Le Repentir

Pokayanie

Directed by : Tengiz ABULADZE (Тенгиз АБУЛАДЗЕ)

Writing credits : Tengiz ABULADZE (Тенгиз АБУЛАДЗЕ), Nana JANELIDZE (Нана ДЖАНЕЛИДЗЕ), Rezo KVESELAVA (Резо КВЕСЕЛАВА)

Cast

Ketevan ABULADZE (Кетеван АБУЛАДЗЕ) ...Nino Barateli

Vriko ANJAPARIDZE (Верико АНДЖАПАРИДЗЕ)

Zeynab BOTSVADZE (Зейнаб БОЦБАДЗЕ) ...Ketevan Barateli

Edisher GIORGOBIANI (Эдишер ГИОРГОБИАНИ) ...Sandro Barateli

Kakhi KAVSADZE (Кахи КАВСАДЗЕ) ...Mikhail Koretcheli

Avtandil MAKHARADZE (Автандил МАХАРАДЗЕ) ...Varlam et Avel Aravidze

Ia NINIDZE (Ия НИНИДЗЕ) ...Gouliko

Tamara TSITSISHIVILI (Тамара ЦИЦИШВИЛИ)

Cinematography : Mikhail AGRANOVICH (Михаил АГРАНОВИЧ)

Production design : Georgi MIKELADZE (Георгий МИКЕЛАДЗЕ)

Music : Nana JANELIDZE (Нана ДЖАНЕЛИДЗЕ)

Sound : Dmitriy GEDEVANISHVILI (Дмитрий ГЕДЕВАНИШВИЛИ)

Production : Grouzia-Film

Format : 35 mm

Awards :

Best feature film "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1987

Best directing "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1987

Best Screenplay Tengiz ABULADZE , Rezo KVESELAVA , Nana JANELIDZE , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1987

Best Cinematography Mikhail AGRANOVICH , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1987

Best Set Decoration Georgi MIKELADZE , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1987

Best actor Avtandil MAKHARADZE , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1987

Special Jury prize Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1987

FIPRESCI Prize Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1987

Premier prix du festival national de l’Union soviétique de 1987

DVD with subtitles

Editeur : Ruscico

Plot synopsis

In a small, somewhat surreal Russian village, a mysterious woman is put on trial for repeatedly digging up the body of Varlam, the town's recently deceased ruler. The trial progresses and the townspeople learn that the woman's parents perished under Varlam's vicious reign of terror along with other innocents. As her ghastly revelations gradually reveal the truth about Varlam's monstrous inhumanity, the film is transformed into a searing expose of the brutal repressions and heroic sacrifices of the Soviet Union's Stalinist era.
Source : www.lib.berkeley.edu/

Commentaries and bibliography

Repentance, Josephine WOLL, Denise YOUNGBLOOD, I.B.Tauris, 2001

Selected in the following festivals :

- International Film Festival El Ojo Cojo, Madrid (Spain), 2012

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009

- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2007

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2001

- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1987

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1987

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