Georgian film director Tengiz Abuladze based the character of dictator Varlam Aravidze on Beria in his 1984 film '' Repentance '' . Although banned in the Soviet Union for its semi-allegorical critique of Stalinism , it premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival , winning the FIPRESCI Prize , Grand Prize of the Jury , and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
1987 Cannes Film Festival
1987 Cannes Film Festival
Lavrentiy Beria