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The deaf powder

Genre:
War film

Director:
Bato Cengic

Short description:
The story of Serbian village high in Bosnian mountains which inhabitants, in the middle of war, have found themselves under the impact of two ideologies, Chetniks and Partisans. The representatives of those two ideologies are Partisan commander Spanac, and former Royal officer Radekic. Spanac is an indoctrinated fanatic, bearer of "changing the world" ideas not caring for victims, and the other is a true expert in situation, a man of those parts who is trying to rescue people, even at the price of his ideas. Spanac sees reasons for bitter resistance to new ideology in Radekic. By the motives of synonymous Branko Copic's novel.

Producer:
Forum, Sarajevo, Beograd film, Sutjeska film, Sarajevo, RTV Sarajevo, Jadran Film

Writer:
Bato Cengic

Music:
Goran Bregovic

Cinematographer:
Tomislav Pinter

Production design:
Veljko Despotovic

Costume design:
Nebojsa Lipanovic

Country of origin:
Jugoslavija, Bosna i Hercegovina, Srbija, Hrvatska

Film editing:
Andrija Zafranovic

Duration:
115 minutes

System:
Widescreen, color

Premiere:
15.3.1990.



Cast:

Boro Stjepanovic
Branislav Lecic
Enver Petrovci
Fabijan Sovagovic
Josip Pejakovic
Marko Nikolic
Milan Erak
Milan Strljic
Mira Furlan
Mustafa Nadarevic
Radko Polic
Svetozar Cvetkovic
Zaim Muzaferija
Zijah Sokolovic
Zvonimir Lepetic

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We are grateful to: "Avala Film Beograd", "Delta Video Beograd", "Centar film Beograd", Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Institut za film Beograd