{27}{126}“Georgia-Film” Studio {131}{228}REPENTANCE {233}{269}The concluding film of a trilogy: {275}{332}“A Prayer”, “The Wishing Tree”,|“Repentance” {337}{374}Written by {379}{464}Nana DZHANELIDZE,|Tenghiz ABULADZE, Rezo KVESELAVA {469}{567}Directed by|Tenghiz ABULADZE {572}{667}Director of Photography|Mikhail AGRANOVICH {672}{750}Production Designer|Georgy MIKELADZE {755}{852}Musical Supervision|Nana DZANELIDZE {857}{903}Musical pieces {908}{955}by classical composers|are used in this film {960}{1005}Starring {1010}{1132}Avtandil MAKHARADZE|as Varlam Aravidze, Abel Aravidze {1137}{1257}Iya NINIDZE as Guliko|Merab NINIDZE as Tornike {1262}{1353}Zeinab BOTSVADZE as Ketevan Barateli|Ketevan ABULADZE as Nino Barateli {1358}{1408}Edisher GIORGOBIANI|as Sandro Barateli {1413}{1534}Kakhi KAVSADZE as Mikhail Korisheli|Nino ZAKARIADZE as Yelena Korisheli {1539}{1590}Nato OCHIGAVA|as Ketevan Barateli (as a child) {1595}{1660}Dato KEMKHADZE|as Abel Aravidze (as a child) {2383}{2440}What a splendid cake, my dear Keto! {3041}{3074}Thank you. {3291}{3390}Oh, God!|What a misfortune! {3412}{3461}What happened, Apollon? {3466}{3542}What a great man|we have lost! {3550}{3649}Oh, my God...|Oh, God! {3666}{3715}Was he your relative? {3741}{3884}More than a relative! {3968}{4024}He was my closest friend. {4029}{4074}Lucky you! {4093}{4174}This is the end to my luck!|My dear Varlam is gone! {4200}{4278}And still you're lucky|to have known such a man. {5595}{5694}We'll never have a mayor|as good as he was. {5731}{5780}I hope you do well in your studies? {5952}{6051}What a man we have lost!|What a great loss! {6177}{6305}What a painful word, 'death'!|What a painful word! {7006}{7049}My condolences. {7066}{7140}By the way,|why is he not buried in the pantheon? {7185}{7236}He must have not wanted it himself? {7270}{7353}Good for Varlam, he was known|for his modesty. {7456}{7484}Thank you. {7520}{7584}I commiserate with you over your loss. {7687}{7736}Thank you, I appreciate it. {8070}{8142}Varlam is not dead, no! {8154}{8244}His soul is here, over us,|it's hovering in the air. {8270}{8307}Tseretso is here. {8312}{8340}Pull yourselves together! {8583}{8657}Thank you very much, patron.|I appreciate it. {8975}{9065}Hurray for our benefactor Tseretso!|Let's give him a round of applause! {9416}{9459}Ladies and gentlemen! {9476}{9525}In a few minutes {9539}{9597}the parting bell will ring {9602}{9655}and we'll commit to the earth {9660}{9769}the remains of a great son of his|motherland, a man of a lofty soul, {9775}{9909}a bright mind|and a kind heart, {9927}{10046}loved by everyone, {10051}{10136}our highly esteemed|Varlam Aravidze. {10156}{10261}I think many of you have taken|notice of the highly emotional {10266}{10405}and wise inscription on the wreath|from the friends of the deceased. {10420}{10559}“One dead man is sometimes better|than a thousand live ones.” {10572}{10663}Our dear Varlam|had many virtues, {10679}{10769}it's hard to enumerate them all. {10797}{10861}He had an extraordinary gift {10866}{10982}to turn his enemy into his friend,|and his friend into his enemy. {11002}{11124}Indeed, this is a quality of the chosen! {11164}{11324}A coffin, like a smorgasbord, {11381}{11488}stands in a spacious vault. {11510}{11611}And faces grow dim in a faded mirror. {11616}{11763}But there's no death, {11800}{11835}only a somersault|of sinful flesh {11852}{11961}and agonizing fear. {11975}{12026}May you rest in peace, indefatigable|toiler! {12039}{12159}Rest in peace in your native earth. {15116}{15190}He'll be gone, another will come|into this blooming world. {15195}{15232}Indeed. {15745}{15842}Why didn't your sweetheart honor|the funeral with her presence? {15900}{15949}Don't say nonsense. {15954}{16019}Though everything went off well|even without her. {16045}{16094}Shut up, will you? {16941}{17034}My dear boy!|My poor orphan! {17039}{17128}Poor Abel... {17135}{17221}What's the matter with you?|Stop clowning, it's enough. {17256}{17305}Why is this portrait here? {17639}{17674}Allez-hop! {18139}{18194}Why is he howling, damn it? {18200}{18249}Don't get up, I'll go and look. {18933}{18963}Abel! {18968}{19042}What's the matter? What's wrong? {19050}{19138}It's Varlam over there!|Don't go there, Abel! {19349}{19405}Don't go near him, Abel! {22410}{22436}Abel! {22470}{22519}- Varlam!|- What? {22927}{22967}The corpse. {23002}{23071}- Arrest him.|- Yes. {23089}{23138}Who saw him first? {23143}{23171}Guliko. {23295}{23380}How are you, esteemed Guliko?|When did you see him first? {23387}{23484}I woke up this morning and saw him,|poor thing, propped up against a tree. {23516}{23599}- We'll have to arrest the deceased.|- What do you mean, to arrest? {23604}{23659}We need it for the inquiry. {23664}{23744}In an hour you'll have your dear|Varlam back safe and sound. {23750}{23799}Go ahead, then. {23816}{23865}But do it in gloves. {24408}{24496}What times we're living in...|They arrested Varlam himself. {25489}{25532}- Well?|- Have you been there? {25537}{25586}- I have.|- And what? {25595}{25636}They didn't receive me. {25650}{25690}Someone had forestalled us. {25695}{25753}My highly esteemed neighbor Abel! {25777}{25851}Did you really hope|they would help you? {25866}{25903}What else can I do? {25908}{25949}- Why is he butting in?|- He's a fool. {25954}{25994}Listen to my advice: {26000}{26074}Put an iron cage|on the grave, {26079}{26167}with a lock on the door,|close it, just like that, {26172}{26265}put the key in your pocket,|and that's it, let them dig then. {26656}{26794}The lion's in the cage.|Let anyone try to touch him. {26900}{26974}Even pharaohs never had|such pyramids. {29179}{29234}Your group goes behind that grave! {29254}{29363}Don't make a step without my command,|I'm in charge here! {29397}{29440}And you move over here. {29454}{29609}No smoking, no talking,|keep your eyes and ears open! {29616}{29724}Take your positions!|Move! {29833}{29965}Abel, the prefect himself|is overseeing the operation. {29975}{30105}Yes, he's a warm-hearted man, he did|not abandon me in my time of misery. {30152}{30288}Abel, do you see those brightly lit|windows beyond the cemetery? {30295}{30355}- Yes, I do.|- My relative lives there. {30360}{30474}When he learned that we'd be|at a stone's throw from his house, {30479}{30557}he had prepared a royal feast. {30562}{30709}He'll be offended|if we don't pay him a visit. {30718}{30763}You want us to leave the grave? {30768}{30888}No one will show up before midnight.|If anything, the guards will call us. {30922}{31044}- I don't know. Ask the prefect.|- So you're for it? I'll be back. {31083}{31157}- Philip. Meliton.|- Yes, sir! {31175}{31249}Do you see that house,|with a big lamp in the window? {31254}{31282}Yes, sir! {31287}{31357}We're going there. {31377}{31463}If anything happens,|call us right away. Is it clear? {31468}{31505}Yes, sir! {31572}{31657}- When did you give up drinking?|- Yesterday. {31662}{31742}Yesterday? O Lord, may my friend|Philip's soul rest in peace. {31760}{31817}Enough, or you'll drop dead! {31826}{31892}Boring life is not worth living. {31900}{31980}Drink, sleep off, and drink again! {32083}{32117}Lucretius? {32204}{32317}I beg your pardon, dear sir!|One can't do it here! {32329}{32424}What a poet he was, eh?|The king of poets! {34089}{34188}Halt! Don't move!|Or I'll fire! {34387}{34465}I'm going to strangle you, bastard! {34543}{34674}Let me go!|Let go of me! {34725}{34817}So it's you who's desecrating|our grave, scoundrel? {34872}{34938}Just let loose the dogs on him! {35087}{35136}Good Lord, it's a woman! {37772}{37817}Defendant Barateli! {37835}{37909}During the preliminary investigation|you confessed that {37914}{38026}you had thrice dug up the deceased|and carried him to the family's house. {38041}{38159}Do you confirm that fact|and do you plead guilty? {38185}{38261}I confirm the fact,|but I don't plead guilty. {38266}{38319}But you did plead guilty during|the investigation. {38325}{38440}It's a lie, I never pleaded guilty|during the investigation. {38466}{38509}Is that your spade? {38570}{38640}Yes, I dug up the deceased|with this spade. {38672}{38759}But where's the bullet|which was extracted from my arm? {38764}{38838}- So you did dig up the deceased?|- Yes. {38843}{38932}That's what you're guilty of,|that's the fact of the crime. {38937}{39059}Yes, I dug him up from the grave,|but I don't plead guilty. {39064}{39092}Be seated. {39100}{39190}Please, be seated|and observe the court order. {39264}{39365}The trial has already taken place|and the verdict has been passed! {39375}{39409}Sit down! {39466}{39588}As long as I live Varlam Aravidze|will not rest in the ground. {39625}{39719}This verdict is final,|without appeal. {39737}{39882}For it was pronounced by Providence|to both of us: Aravidze and me. {39925}{40024}I will dig him up three hundred|times, not just three! {40097}{40138}Sit down! {40152}{40317}Your Honor, the defendant is|agitated, it's only natural. {40327}{40367}May I have the floor? {40410}{40467}The counselor for defense may speak. {40485}{40624}Your Honor,|dear citizens! {40697}{40784}Today we're dealing|with an unprecedented case. {40837}{40976}The deceased had been thrice dug up|from his grave. Three times! {41012}{41086}It is an indisputable fact that|the motive was not robbery: {41091}{41169}The valuables buried with the deceased|had not been touched. {41181}{41269}What was it then?|What was the motive of the crime? {41293}{41399}I tried to talk to the defendant,|but she refused to speak. {41404}{41532}Therefore, we'll have to conduct|both a hearing and an investigation, {41537}{41588}and, certainly, pass the verdict,|righ...
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