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The Dagger (1999 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Dagger' ( / 'No', "Knife") is a 1999 Yugoslav war film directed by Miroslav Leki. The film was written by Miroslav Leki, Slobodan Stanojevi and Igor Bojovi. The plot is based on Vuk Drakovi's novel of the same name.
Set in the 1960s and observed from the point of view of Alija Osmanovi, a young Muslim medical student raised by a single mother, his entire family was slaughtered and his baby brother kidnapped by Chetniks during the Second World War, as the aftermath of a violent family feud between the Jugovi (Christian) and Osmanovi (Muslim) families. He not only learns that the Osmanovi family were once a branch of the Jugovi family who converted to Islam during the Ottoman era, but that, unbeknownst to his mother, he himself was a baby taken from the Jugovi family, after the massacre on Christmas Eve in 1942. With both families now extinct, and Alija, as the descendant of both, torn between two cultures and two identities, he struggles to maintain his inner peace, desperately searching for his long lost step-brother and fighting the prejudices against the romantic relationship he has with a Serbian classmate.
The film is based on fictive events of World War II and is centered on the atrocious crimes committed during that period, in particular the Jugovi and Osmanovi families.
In 1999, the film was screened at the 13th Montenegro Film Festival, and gained five featured awards. The film also earned the Fipresci Award for Directing, five acting awards in the Ni Film Festival and the Crystal Star at the Brussels Film Festival.
Cast
* arko Lauevi : Alija Osmanovic / Ilija Jugovic
* Bojana Maljevi : Milica Jankovic
* Aleksandar Berek : Halil 'Sikter' Efendija
* Ljiljana Blagojevi : Rabija Osmanovic
* Petar Boovi : Sabahudin Aga / Atifaga Tanovic
* Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic : Nicifor Jugovic
* Nikola Kojo : Milan Vilenjak
* Svetozar Cvetkovi : Selim Osmanovic
* Josif Tati : Kemal Osmanovic
* Dragan Nikoli : Hodza
* Dragan Maksimovi : Zulfikar
References
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