Monanieba, Russian: Покаяние, romanized: Pokayaniye) is a 1984 Georgian Soviet art film directed by Tengiz Abuladze.

A man in a chair is reading from a newspaper that the town's mayor, Varlam Aravidze (Avtandil Makharadze) has died.

A woman, Ketevan Barateli (Zeinab Botsvadze [hu; ka; ru]), is eventually arrested and accused of digging up the corpse.

During the trial, Varlam's son Abel (Avtandil Makharadze) denies any wrongdoings by his father and his lawyer tries to get Ketevan declared insane.

During the shooting of the film the actor Gega Kobakhidze was arrested for being involved in the hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833.

Harald Wessel [de], second editor in chief of Neues Deutschland and the editor in chief of the Junge Welt, Hans-Dieter Schütt [de] published editorials in their newspapers that tried to both denounce the film and to avoid anti-Soviet undertones.

The situation was complicated by the fact that the editorials were for a film that was banned and should theoretically be unknown to East German readers.