Archive Cinema City 2009.

Seobe

Migrations

Genre: Drama / War
Country: Yugoslavia / France
Year: 1994.
Duration: 120 min

Director: Aleksandar Petrovic
Scenario: Milos Crnjanski (roman), Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Aleksandar Petrovic

Cast: Avtandil Makharadze, Isabelle Huppert, Richard Berry, Bernard Blier, Erland Josephson, Dragan Nikolic, Miki Manojlovic, Rade Markovic, Petar Bozovic, Ljubomir Cipranic, Jelica Sretenovic, Dobrica Jovanovic, Jovan-Burdus Janicijevic, Ruzica Sokic, Aljosa Vuckovic

Programme selection: Retrospective of a Domestic Author - Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic

Synopsis:
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnjepar to Lotaringia during XVII and XIX century. The great Serbian migration topic is given through the military campaign of major Vuk Isakovic (Avtandil Makharadze) at the head of Slavonian-Danube regiment, from spring of 1744. to spring of the next year. The scond topic follows tragic but passionate relationship between Vuk's younger brother and his wife, which ends with her long-lasting disease and death.

Festivals / Awards:
- XXIII Film Festival in Sopot, July 1994.
- Palic International Film Festival, July 1994.
- VIII Herceg-Novi Yugoslavian Film Festival, August 1994. (Out of Competition)
- Yugoslavian Festival of Film Scenario in Vrnjacka banja, 1994.
- Montreal International Film Festival, August 1994. (Out of Competition)
- XXIX Film Festival "Glumacki susreti" in Nis, August 1994.
- XXVII Yugoslavian Film Festival in Arandjelovac, 1994.
- III Film Festival "Novosadska arena 94", September 1994.
- XIX Screening of New Domestic Films "Mojkovacka filmska jesen", September 1994.


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