Monanieba = Repentance /
The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the police eventually capture a local woman accusing her of digging it up. The trial gradually reveals the trut...
| Uniform Title: | Monanieba (Motion picture) |
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| Other Authors: | , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Georgian |
| Language Notes: | In Georgian with subtitles in English. |
| Published: |
[Georgian S.S.R.] :
Georgia-Film Studio,
[1987]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street) |
| Summary: | The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the police eventually capture a local woman accusing her of digging it up. The trial gradually reveals the truth about the former despot's vicious reign of terror, and forces the townspeople to face the reality of his, and the Soviet Union's, monstrous inhumanity during the Stalinist era. |
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| Item Description: | Parallel title and credits from English subtitles. The last film of a trilogy: "A Prayer", "The Wishing Tree", "Repentance." Originally produced as motion picture in 1984, first released in 1987. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (144 min., 36 sec.) : sound, color |
| Awards: | Winner, 1987 Cannes Film Festival (Grand Prize of the Jury, FIPRESCI Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury). |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Mikhail Agranovich; editor, Guliko Omadze. |