| Other author/creator | Abulaże, Tʻengiz, 1924- |
| Other author/creator | Kveselava, Rezo. |
| Other author/creator | Agranovich, Michail. |
| Other author/creator | Janeliże, Nana. |
| Other author/creator | Maxaraże, Avtʻandil. |
| Other author/creator | Niniże, Ia, 1960- |
| Other author/creator | Niniże, Merab, 1965- |
| Other author/creator | Botsvaże, Zeinab. |
| Other author/creator | Abuladze, Ketevan. |
| Other author/creator | Giorgobiani, Edisher. |
| Other author/creator | Kinostudia Kʻartʻuli Pʻilmi. |
| Other author/creator | Ruscico (Firm) |
| Uniform title | Monanieba (Motion picture) |
| Parallel title |
Repentance |
| Variant title |
Original Georgian title: Monanieba |
| Series |
Russian Cinema Council. Kollekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ "Rezhisser"
Russian Cinema Council collection. Kollekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ "Rezhisser." UNAUTHORIZED
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| Abstract |
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 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. Repentance was the first Soviet film that openly denounced the horrors of Stalinism, though the Georgian director Tengiz Abuladze chose to make it allegorical, deliberately using anachronisms and making the leading character look like a combination of Stalin's henchman Lavrentii Beriia, Hitler, and Mussolini. |
| General note | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1984, first released in 1987. |
| General note | Credits from English subtitles. |
| General note | Original credits in Georgian. |
| General note | The last film of a trilogy: "A Prayer", "The Wishing Tree", "Repentance." |
| Credits | Director of photography, Mikhail Agranovich ; music, Nana Djanelidze. |
| Cast |
Avtandil Makharadze, Iya Ninidze, Merab Ninidze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ketevan Abuladze, Edisher Giorgobiani. |
| Technical details | DVD. |
| Language | In Georgian, Russian or French; with optional subtitles in Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese. DVD menus in Russian, English and French; case in Russian. |
| Genre/form | Feature films. |
| Genre/form | Fiction films. |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Genre/form | History. |
