Repentance: The Film Companion (KINOfiles Film Companion)

Tengiz Abuladze's allegorical film, made in Georgia, is the best known film of the Perestroika and Glasnost years. With its outspoken and controversial reference to the Stalin era and Stalin's place in the Soviet psyche, ""Repentance"" was originally shelved but ultimately released in 1986 to widespread popular and critical acclaim. This __KINOfile__ investigates the production, context and critical reception of the film, and the people who made it, and provides an analysis of the film itself and its place in world cinema. "Tengiz Abuladze's allegorical work Repentance, made in Soviet Georgia, is the best know film of the perestroika and glasnost years. Due to its provocative depiction of the Stalin era and Stalin's place in the Soviet psyche, Repentance was originally shelved but ultimately released in 1986 to widespread popular and critical acclaim." "This Kinofile investigates the production, context and critical reception of the film and provides an analysis of the film itself and its place in world cinema."--BOOK JACKET. This is a handbook to "Repentance", directed by Tengiz Abuladze and released in 1986. It investigates the production, context and reception of the film, the people who made it, and the film itself, including its place in Russian and World cinema.