Georgian film-maker dies
Georgian director Tengiz Abuladze, whose film Repentance was one of the cultural landmarks of Soviet perestroika, died in Georgia yesterday after a long illness, aged 70, AFP reports from Moscow. Repentance, a scathing satire on tyranny, was the first film screened in the Soviet Union to evoke openly the ravages of Stalinism.
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