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Virgina
Genre: Social film
Director: Srdjan Karanovic
Short description:
In remote rocky soil, in the area of Kninska krajina, families without
male descendants were regarded as cursed and doomed to disaster. To
rescue themselves from curse, they were announcing one of their female
children male, hiding the truth as family secret. In one such family,
who knows only for rocks, ravines, sheep and St. George as their
protector, the greatest gift is a son which they can not have. So
the last one, freshly born little girl will be sacrificed to become
male, in spite of her mother's pain, in order for the house to get
their Saint's grace. Convicted to defy all female in herself, to fight
her nature and feelings, in the moment when she falls in love with
her friend, she starts rebellion against her destiny. More her father
tries to carry the burden of two men, believing that everything
could be hidden from the world, more he falls and loses. "Virgina" with
help of a young man to whom she reveals her secret, breaks up with
her former life and departs, as many from that area, to America.
Producer: Centar film, Beograd,
Maestro film, Zagreb,
Constellation productions, Pariz,
RTV Beograd
Writer: Srdjan Karanovic
Music: Zoran Simjanovic
Cinematographer: Slobodan Trninic
Production design: Nikola Pajic
Costume design: Maja Galasso
Country of origin: Jugoslavija,
Srbija,
Hrvatska
Film editing: Branka Ceperac
Duration: 100 minutes
System:
Widescreen, color
Premiere: 5.4.1991. |
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