MOVIES - April 25, 1988

Soviet director Tengiz Abuladze, whose film “Repentance” cleared the way for cinematic treatment of the Stalin era, was awarded the Lenin Prize for art, Pravda reported Friday. The Lenin Prize is the highest state award for culture. Abuladze shot the film in 1984, but Soviet censors banned it until policy changed with the onset of glasnost . “Repentance” won a special grand jury prize at the Cannes film festival last summer and also took the top prize at a Soviet film festival in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.