Director: Tenguiz Abouladzé
Screenplay: Tenguiz Abouladzé, Nana Djanelidzé, Rezo Kvesselava
Cinematographer: Mikhaïl Agranovitch
Setting: Gueorgui Mikeladzé
Sound: Dmitri Guedevanichvili
Music: Nana Djanelidzé
Cast.: Ketevan Abouladzé, Vriko Andjaparidzé, Zeïnab Botsvadzé, Edicher Guiorgobiani, Kakhi Kavsadzé, Ia Ninidzé
Production: Grouzia-film
Distribution:
Gaumont Pathé Archives
24 rue du Docteur Bauer
93400 ST OUEN
France
Tel: 0033 1 49 48 15 03
[email protected]
Year: 1984
35 mm, B & W, 153 min,
OV Georgian with French subtitles
Varlam Aravidze’s family attends his funeral with great pomp in the city where he was the mayor. However, his corpse gets mysteriously exhumed several times. Keti Barateli, the culprit, is finally arrested. During the trial she denounces the hypocrisy about the life of the deceased mayor. She swears that, as long as she lives, the cynical dictator, guilty of her parents’ death, will never be at peace. The judges cannot sentence her, but the dead man’s family manages to keep her quiet. Tornike, the grand-son, cannot bear such truth hidden from him for so long and commits suicide. Tormented by his son’s tragic death and spurred on by the need to repent, Avel digs up his father corpse and throws him in a precipice, thus forever depriving him of a grave, which he is not worthy anymore.
