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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, the people who made it, and provides an analysis of the film itself and its place in world cinema.

Repentance: The Film Companion

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    A Paperback / softback by Professor Emerita Denise J. Youngblood, Josephine Woll

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      Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 24 August 2001
      ISBN-13 9781860643958
      978-1860643958
      ISBN-10 1860643957
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      Film history, theory or criticism Comparative religion

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      Book Synopsis
      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, the people who made it, and provides an analysis of the film itself and its place in world cinema.

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