Repentance: The Film Companion

by Denise J. Youngblood, Josephine Woll

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860643958
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/24/2001
Series:	KINOfiles Film Companion , #4
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.61(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Josephine Woll is Professor of German and Russian at Howard University, Washington D.C.
Denise Youngblood is Professor at the University of Vermont.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The First Swallow of Perestroika
• "The Content of the Form"
• "Repentance"
• Signs and Symbols
• The History that is History
• "The Dead Hand of History"