Repentance (1987 film) Quotes

Repentance (1987 film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Repentance stopped airing in 1970.

It features Nana Dzanelidze in charge of musical score, and Mikhail Agranovich (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Repentance (1987 film) is recorded in Georgian and originally aired in Soviet Union. Each episode of Repentance (1987 film) is 153 minutes long. Repentance (1987 film) is distributed by Cannon Film (US theatrical).

The cast includes: Edisher Giorgobiani as Sandro Barateli, Ketevan Abuladze as Nino Barateli, Kakhi Kavsadze as Mikheil Koresheli, Zeinab Botsvadze as Ketevan Barateli, Ia Ninidze as Guliko, and Merab Ninidze as Tornike.

Repentance (1987 film) Quotes

Zeinab Botsvadze as Ketevan Barateli

• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "On behalf of everyone who was unjustly punished, I demand that Varlam Aravidze be dug up from his grave by his own relatives."
• (Ia Ninidze) "I protest. All you've heard here is a lie and slander."
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "Slander? Prove that it's a slander."
• (Unnamed) "You mean that the deceased should not be buried?"
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "No, you must not bury him. Let the carrion crows tear him to pieces. Burying him means forgiving him, shutting our eyes to everything he had perpetrated. I publicly declare once again: If you don't dig him up, I will get him, I will not leave him in peace."

• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "Evening, spring, and shadows clumping, On the branch a bird is jumping. May a new dream me enfold."
• (Merab Ninidze) "Moon has waned Earth to behold. I'm Tornike Aravidze, Varlam Aravidze's grandson."
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "What do you want?"
• (Merab Ninidze) "I came -- I came to ask your forgiveness."
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "I'm not the G-d to give absolution."
• (Merab Ninidze) "I fired at you. I'm a murderer."
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "Oh G-d, what a fateful star I was born under, if I have made even you, an innocent boy, a murderer? Evening, spring, and shadows clumping, On the branch a bird is jumping."
• (Merab Ninidze) "Are you making fun of me?"
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "I'm crazy, don't you know it? Crazy. I'm really crazy. Tomorrow they'll come, take me by my arms and drag me to a lunatic asylum."

• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "I'm telling you that Aravidze will not rest in the ground. As soon as I'm released, I'll dig him up."
• (Unnamed) "I hope that Ms. Barateli is not the primitive creature that believes it's possible to achieve a moral objective by an immoral act, by insulting a deceased."
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "It's possible, because Aravidze is not dead."
• (Unnamed) "You think -- he's alive?"
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "Yes, he's alive. And as you defend him, he goes on living and corrupting the society."
• (Unnamed) "Just a minute. Excuse me. So you're asserting that he's alive?"
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "Yes."

• (Unnamed) "Excuse me, does this street lead to a church? I want to know whether this street leads to a church."
• (Zeinab Botsvadze) "No, this is Varlam Street, and it doesn't lead to a church."
• (Unnamed) "Then what do you need it for? Why have a road that doesn't lead to a church?"

Kakhi Kavsadze as Mikheil Koresheli

• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "Listen, Sandro. I thought a lot. I was thinking all nights through. We must name as many people as possible as the nation's enemies. They can't arrest them all. And when the number of the accused reaches an astronomical figure, those at the top will think twice, convene an extraordinary assembly and expose all the criminals that have misled the government. Do you understand, Sandro? This is tactics. A cunning, crafty tactics. We'll sign everything, we'll bring it to absurdity, to absolute nonsense. We'll make thousands of absurd statements. The tunnel from Bombay to London, and so on. Eventually, the government will understand everything. It will become indignant, get, with its iron hand, at the throat of the villains and destroy them. I've been suggested all this by the wisdom of imagination. Do you understand me, Sandro?"

• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "I understand, but this is not an argument for the letter's authors."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "Maybe the artist's talent isn't a strong argument for them either? They have in mind his stand."
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "What are you talking about? Talent is kindness, and that's already a stand."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "I understand that Sandro Barateli is your friend and pupil.By the way, do you know that he's my relative?"
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "No -- I didn't know that."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "Even a close relative. Write a protest, esteemed Mikhail. Barateli is arrested, but he's not convicted. I was just executing the people's will, masses stand behind that letter. And each word coming from the masses is the holy of holies for me. Write a protest, esteemed Mikhail."
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "To write a protest?"
• (Varlam Aravidze) "Yes, I have nothing against it."
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "Wait, wait -- What do you mean, "nothing against it"? What can you possibly have against the truth?"
• (Varlam Aravidze) "The truth? Nothing."
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "Well, I'll write it."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "Go ahead, write it. But take that letter into account, too."
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "What does that letter, that filth have to do with it? That provocation?"
• (Varlam Aravidze) "Not a provocation, but a document registered in thousands of places."
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "I don't care where it's registered."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "You're wrong, esteemed Mikhail. It's my duty to take the position of the majority, for the majority decides."
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "What majority? What are you talking about? One man of reason outweighs a thousand idiots."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "I understand that you're talking about me."
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "Stand up for him. Defending one person is not such a big deal."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "But remember, as the letter's authors see it, you're protecting the enemy. Yes, your friend and my relative is our enemy now. And we are his victims."
• (Kakhi Kavsadze) "Who is the enemy? Who is the enemy?"

Ketevan Abuladze as Nino Barateli

• (Ketevan Abuladze) "Esteemed Varlam, will you sing again? Sing something else, please. Don't refuse, please, dear Varlam."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "With great pleasure. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry: as, to behold desert a beggar born, and needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, and purest faith unhappily forsworn, and gilded honour shamefully misplaced, and maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, and right perfection wrongfully disgraced, and strength by limping sway disabled, and art made tongue-tied by authority, and folly, doctor-like, controlling skill, and simple truth miscall'd simplicity, and captive good attending captain ill. William Shakespeare. Sonnet 66. A regimen is a regimen."

• (Ketevan as a child) "What happened, mommy?"
• (Ketevan Abuladze) "We have lost our father --"
• (Ketevan as a child) "What?"
• (Ketevan Abuladze) "They have blown up the church."

Edisher Giorgobiani as Sandro Barateli

• (Edisher Giorgobiani) "The vibration has damaged not only the frescos. There are cracks in the walls of the church. If it goes on this way, the church will collapse. By the way, the church stands on piles. We ask you to immediately stop laboratory experiments in the church and put up as soon as possible a new building for the research institute."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "You mean to say that you're against science and progress?"
• (Edisher Giorgobiani) "We're against the science that destroys ancient monuments."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "Doksopulo, what was that church directive about?"
• (Unnamed) "It's about a dilapidated church."
• (Unnamed) "Who says it's dilapidated?"
• (Unnamed) "It's almost ruined."
• (Unnamed) "Almost. You hear that? Almost."
• (Unnamed) "The building is almost ruined, it's the nidus of infection. There're snakes and lizards breeding in its foundation. No one attends your church anymore. Long past are the times when people were being told that G-d created man. The fact that we all had descended from a monkey was concealed. That's why it's been decided to pull the church down and on that place --"
• (Varlam Aravidze) "Wait, Doksopulo. Esteemed Doksopulo. The Church of the Mother of G-d is one of the greatest monuments of early Christianity. A cultural monument. Demolishing it means cutting off the life-giving roots that nourish and spiritually enrich our people. Then throw into fire the works of Rustaveli and Dante. Stop playing Bach, Beethoven, Verdi. Let's demolish the St. Peter Church, Notre Dame, Svetitskhoveli. Esteemed Varlam. Our church used to have some unique relics. Through centuries our ancestors had protected them up to this day. But they've been lost without a trace. Now the building is collapsing. But we --"
• (Varlam Aravidze) "Doksopulo, give me the text of my directive on the laboratory. Look what's written here: "I deem appropriate the construction of a new building of the laboratory. However, in view of lack of funds, we should temporarily abstain from it." You see, we're concerned, too. But it seems we can't put it off any longer, you have convinced me. Doksopulo. Do you have a mother?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "How old is she?"
• (Unnamed) "Very Old."
• (Varlam Aravidze) "Aren't you supposed to take care of her? The same goes for that church, the monument of the 6th century, our pride and our history. A son should never leave his sick mother without care. Remember it well. We should be grateful to these noble people for opening up our eyes, for telling us the truth. I give you my word that I won't spare any effort to solve this problem. And the experiments, as far as I know, are conducted at a minimal capacity. It will go on this way until the new building is erected."
• (Unnamed) "If the high voltage installations work at a full capacity, not only the church, but the whole town will blow up."

Merab Ninidze as Tornike

• (Abel Aravidze as an adult) "Varlam was always guided by the interests of society. But sometimes he had to act against his will."
• (Merab Ninidze) "And if he were ordered to destroy the world, would he have done it?"
• (Abel Aravidze as an adult) "You know what? Your grandfather never killed anyone with his own hands. And you did fire at a human being. What kind of morals you're talking of?"
• (Merab Ninidze) "I didn't know who I was firing at."
• (Abel Aravidze as an adult) "What difference does it make? You did fire at a human."
• (Merab Ninidze) "Yes, I did -- And it makes our guilt even worse."
• (Abel Aravidze as an adult) "Whose guilt?"
• (Merab Ninidze) "Grandfather's, mine, and yours."
• (Abel Aravidze as an adult) "What do you blame me for?"
• (Merab Ninidze) "For justifying grandfather and for following in his steps. You're a worse murderer than me, because you don't pity that woman."
• (Abel Aravidze as an adult) "Why should I pity her? Are you out of your mind?"
• (Merab Ninidze) "You'd rather strangle her than ask her forgiveness."
• (Abel Aravidze as an adult) "I couldn't imagine that you were such an idiot. She digs up my father from his grave, and I'm supposed to apologize? Yes, I will strangle her, and you too, if you don't come to your senses. I shall not let her desecrate the deceased."
• (Merab Ninidze) "I hate you. I hate you."

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