Repentance

Director: Tengiz Abuladze

Writer: Tengiz Abuladze,Nana Janelidze,Rezo Kveselava

Countries of origin: Soviet Union

Language: Georgian, Russian, Italian, German

Release date: May 18, 1987

Sound mix: Mono

Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1

Also known as: Die Reue

Покаяние is a 153-minute drama film directed by Tengiz Abuladze . The film, starring Avtandil Makharadze , Zeinab Botsvadze , Merab Ninidze , etc., was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May 1987.

The film is the third in Tengiz Abuladze's "Ablaze Trilogy", which tells the story of the mayor of a small town whose body was repeatedly exhumed and placed in his son's garden. corpse. The women in court said the mayor should not be buried. His Stalinist rule led to the destruction of churches and the persecution and exile of many innocent people .

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By Marlin 2022-11-02 22:41:09

the director said

Known as the "First Spring Swallow" of the Soviet film reform, "Repentance" is the first of a trilogy by Cengiz Abradze, a famous contemporary director of the Soviet Union, a popular actor of the Soviet Union, a Lenin Prize winner and a recipient of the State Prize of the Georgian Republic. Three. The first two are "Prayer" and "Wish Tree". Ablaze is one of the representatives of contemporary "poetry cinema". His works always show a stunning beauty. Laughter and tears, joy and sorrow,...
By Zane 2022-06-17 22:50:34

What will happen to the world if mankind loses faith?

When the sworn declaration turns into the devil's incantation, and the appearance of the red heart cannot hide the rotten essence, what can we rely on to maintain the morality that human beings should most not degenerate? At the end of "Repentance", Ablaze seems to give a succinct answer, is this the revelation that social evolution has brought us?
In fact, the film does not appear to be struggling because of the heavy subject matter, on the contrary, it is smooth and magical from...
By Reva 2022-06-17 21:29:56

Gorbachev and "Repentance"

In the autumn of 1986, after censoring the film "Repentance," Gorbachev confided this secret to three interviewers from the Italian Communist Party: There were several scenes in the film that he watched with tears in his eyes. He said a scene in the film - the secret police knocking on an innocent musician's door to throw him in jail without any justifiable reason - reminded him of what his grandmother had told him about the day his grandfather was arrested Story of the night. Later, Gorbachev...
By Russell 2022-06-17 17:00:59

When Stone meets Tarkovsky

Sometimes prejudice will bring you some losses. For example, when it comes to the films of the former Soviet Union, we always think that the best ones are the works of several big directors and big studios in the Russian Federation. In fact, some small republics also have excellent films, such as Stalin's hometown Georgia. My previous knowledge of Georgian films was only the "27 Missing Kisses", which was a picturesque and childlike film, but was accused of being a pornographic film by the...
By Meaghan 2022-06-17 15:15:29

Digging, Throwing, and Suicide

An intellectual film with an easy-to-understand plot, it now seems to be a genre film exclusive to the Iron Curtain country, enough to satisfy the imagination of various classes and the outside world about the system. It doesn't need any footnotes, arguing that the existence of such a thing has become common sense in itself. So when such a film is played, it conveys such an attitude: "I don't care whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway." In fact, it is arrogant and unreasonable....

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By Kaylah 2023-09-24 06:19:23

I really don't like it, it's too heavy. 73...
By Breana 2023-09-18 17:50:05

low cost, absurd, hideaway, historical,...
By Eulalia 2023-09-13 13:21:42

The male lead's beard is a bit disgusting, but the rest of the politicization is ingenious and...
By Michel 2023-09-10 20:08:28

Good movie, just a little...
By Deja 2023-09-06 11:46:20

No! It's Varlam Street and it doesn't lead to a church So why do you need it...

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Sandro Barateli: The vibration has damaged not only the frescos. There are cracks in the walls of the church. If it goes on this way, the church will collapse. By the way, the church stands on piles. We ask you to immediately stop laboratory experiments in the church and put up as soon as possible a new building for the research institute.

Varlam Aravidze: You mean to say that you're against science and progress?

Sandro Barateli: We're against the science that destroys ancient monuments.

Varlam Aravidze: Doksopulo, what was that church directive about?

Doksopulo: It's about a dilapidated church.

Mosse: Who says it's dilapidated?

Doksopulo: It's almost ruined.

Mosse: Almost. You hear that? Almost!

Doksopulo: The building is almost ruined, it's the nidus of infection. There're snakes and lizards breeding in its foundation. No one attends your church anymore. Long past are the times when people were being told that G-d created man. The fact that we all had descended from a monkey was concealed. That's why it's been decided to pull the church down and on that place...

Varlam Aravidze: Wait, Doksopulo! Esteemed Doksopulo! The Church of the Mother of G-d is one of the greatest monuments of early Christianity. A cultural monument! Demolishing it means cutting off the life-giving roots that nourish and spiritually enrich our people. Then throw into fire the works of Rustaveli and Dante! Stop playing Bach, Beethoven, Verdi! Let's demolish the St. Peter Church, Notre Dame, Svetitskhoveli. Esteemed Varlam! Our church used to have some unique relics. Through centuries our ancestors had protected them up to this day. But they've been lost without a trace. Now the building is collapsing. But we...

Varlam Aravidze: Doksopulo, give me the text of my directive on the laboratory. Look what's written here: "I deem appropriate the construction of a new building of the laboratory. However, in view of lack of funds, we should temporarily abstain from it." You see, we're concerned, too. But it seems we can't put it off any longer, you have convinced me. Doksopulo! Do you have a mother?

Doksopulo: Yes.

Varlam Aravidze: How old is she?

Doksopulo: Very Old.

Varlam Aravidze: Aren't you supposed to take care of her? The same goes for that church, the monument of the 6th century, our pride and our history. A son should never leave his sick mother without care. Remember it well. We should be grateful to these noble people for opening up our eyes, for telling us the truth. I give you my word that I won't spare any effort to solve this problem. And the experiments, as far as I know, are conducted at a minimal capacity. It will go on this way until the new building is erected.

Mosse: If the high voltage installations work at a full capacity, not only the church, but the whole town will blow up.
Nino Barateli: Esteemed Varlam, will you sing again? Sing something else, please. Don't refuse, please, dear Varlam!

Varlam Aravidze: With great pleasure. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry: as, to behold desert a beggar born, and needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, and purest faith unhappily forsworn, and gilded honour shamefully misplaced, and maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, and right perfection wrongfully disgraced, and strength by limping sway disabled, and art made tongue-tied by authority, and folly, doctor-like, controlling skill, and simple truth miscall'd simplicity, and captive good attending captain ill. William Shakespeare. Sonnet 66. A regimen is a regimen.
Mikheil Koresheli: I understand, but this is not an argument for the letter's authors.

Varlam Aravidze: Maybe the artist's talent isn't a strong argument for them either? They have in mind his stand.

Mikheil Koresheli: What are you talking about? Talent is kindness, and that's already a stand!

Varlam Aravidze: I understand that Sandro Barateli is your friend and pupil.By the way, do you know that he's my relative?

Mikheil Koresheli: No... I didn't know that.

Varlam Aravidze: Even a close relative. Write a protest, esteemed Mikhail. Barateli is arrested, but he's not convicted. I was just executing the people's will, masses stand behind that letter. And each word coming from the masses is the holy of holies for me. Write a protest, esteemed Mikhail.

Mikheil Koresheli: To write a protest?

Varlam Aravidze: Yes, I have nothing against it.

Mikheil Koresheli: Wait, wait... What do you mean, "nothing against it"? What can you possibly have against the truth?

Varlam Aravidze: The truth? Nothing.

Mikheil Koresheli: Well, I'll write it!

Varlam Aravidze: Go ahead, write it. But take that letter into account, too.

Mikheil Koresheli: What does that letter, that filth have to do with it? That provocation?

Varlam Aravidze: Not a provocation, but a document registered in thousands of places.

Mikheil Koresheli: I don't care where it's registered.

Varlam Aravidze: You're wrong, esteemed Mikhail. It's my duty to take the position of the majority, for the majority decides.

Mikheil Koresheli: What majority? What are you talking about? One man of reason outweighs a thousand idiots.

Varlam Aravidze: I understand that you're talking about me.

Mikheil Koresheli: Stand up for him. Defending one person is not such a big deal.

Varlam Aravidze: But remember, as the letter's authors see it, you're protecting the enemy. Yes, your friend and my relative is our enemy now. And we are his victims.

Mikheil Koresheli: Who is the enemy? Who is the enemy?

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