Repentance /

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 some...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Abulaże, Tʻengiz, 1924- (Director)
Format: Video
Language:Georgian
Russian
Language Notes:In Georgian and Russian with English subtitles.
Published: Moscow, Russia : Ruscico, 1987.
Series:Academic Video Online
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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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.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed December 11, 2017).
Physical Description:1 online resource (144 min.)
Playing Time:02:24:25
Awards: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