Repentance (1984)

Merab Ninidze: Tornike

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• Abel Aravidze as an adult : Varlam was always guided by the interests of society. But sometimes he had to act against his will.

  Tornike : 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?

  Tornike : 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!

  Tornike : Yes, I did... And it makes our guilt even worse.

  Abel Aravidze as an adult : Whose guilt?

  Tornike : Grandfather's, mine, and yours.

  Abel Aravidze as an adult : What do you blame me for?

  Tornike : 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?

  Tornike : 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!

  Tornike : I hate you. I hate you!

• Ketevan Barateli : Evening, spring, and shadows clumping, On the branch a bird is jumping. May a new dream me enfold.

  Tornike : Moon has waned Earth to behold. I'm Tornike Aravidze, Varlam Aravidze's grandson.

  Ketevan Barateli : What do you want?

  Tornike : I came... I came to ask your forgiveness.

  Ketevan Barateli : I'm not the G-d to give absolution.

  Tornike : I fired at you. I'm a murderer.

  Ketevan Barateli : 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.

  Tornike : Are you making fun of me?

  Ketevan Barateli : 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.