Repentance

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 criti...