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Holy Mary

Director:
Neven Hitrec

Short description:
Film "Holy Mary" is a powerfull drama depicting relationships in a Slavonian village before the war. Carpenter Kuzma Glavan fells in love with much younger Ana. In spite of grumbling of her parents and agressive assaults of her ex fiance Djuka, Kuzma and Ana marry and get a son. Life gets back to tranquile, plain direction. Kuzma, who is also naive sculptor, gets an order from local priest to make a sculpture of Holy Mother for church. He is modelling it inspired with his wife Ana. Gradually relationships between Croats and Serbs in a village become increasingly tense. Everyday life starts changing, so Kuzma's friend and assistant Rade stops comming to work.

Producer:
HRT, Maxima, Zagreb

Writer:
Hrvoje Hitrec

Music:
Darko Hajsek

Cinematographer:
Stanko Herceg

Production design:
Mladen Ozbolt

Costume design:
Vjera Ivankovic

Country of origin:
Hrvatska

Film editing:
Slaven Zecevic

Duration:
88 minutes

System:
Standard, color

Premiere:
1.1.1999.



Cast:

Zeljko Konigsknecht
as major JNA
Aldo Toncic
as radnik iz gostionice
Drazen Kuhn
as Sabljakov pomocnik
Filip Sovagovic
Goran Navojec
as Djuka
Igor Mesin
as vozac
Ivo Gregurevic
as Rade
Jadranka Matkovic
as prodavacica
Ljubo Zecevic
as Blaskovic
Ljubomir Kerekes
as stolar Kuzma Glavan
Lucija Serbedzija
as Ana
Marija Kohn
Matija Prskalo
as novinarka RTB
Vanja Drach
Vera Zima
as Vinka Sokcevic
Vili Matula
as specijalac
Vlatko Dulic
as Ciro Sokcevic

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