Repentance

Repentance
  • Release date: 18 May 1987
  • Release year: 1984
  • Runtime: 153 minutes
  • Country: Soviet Union
  • Keywords: totalitarianism, funeral, forced labor camp, stalinism, police state, nightmare, dictator, communism, political allegory, one word title
Plot:
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, who is accused of digging it up. She says that Varlam should never be laid to rest because he was responsible for a Stalin-like reign of terror that led to the disappearance of many of her friends...
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