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Three (1965 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Three' is a 1965 Yugoslav film directed by Aleksandar Petrovi. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards.
Cast
* Bata ivojinovi as Milo Bojani
* Nikola-Kole Angelovski
* Stole Aranelovi
* Dragomir Bojani
* Milan Jeli
* Branislav Jerini as Komandir
* Laza Jovanovi
* Mirjana Kodi
* Vesna Krajina as Vera
* Voja Miri as Partizan
* Slobodan Perovi as Nevino optueni
* Ali Raner as Mladi
Themes
The theme of the film is the death, in three forms: as witness of it, as a victim of it, and as an executor.
Three was the first Yugoslav movie released in the United States (in 1966).
Aleksandar Petrovi's films Three and I Even Met Happy Gypsies provided the world an introduction to Yugoslav cinema. Unlike Three it was very well received and translated in over 100 languages.
Reception
A review from the New York Times from 1967 when it was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards:
"Wars utter bestiality and waste, usually illustrated by armies, is brought into sharp focus by a talented few in Three, a prize-winning Yugoslav drama that treats its bleak and harrowing subject with a grim but poetic artistry. It had a showing at the New York Film Festival last year, and is now at the Studio Cinema and 72d Street Theaters. The film is mystifyingly abrupt in its transitions, but its effects, physical and intellectual, are unmistakably forceful and chilling. The director, Aleksandar Petrovic, with the aid of a sparse script and stunning photography by Tomislav Pinter, has pointed up wars ravages as it affects one partisans fights in one small sector of the conflict. In each of three events he is part of, needless death brought about by fear, despair and defeat."
Awards, Honors
* Academy Awards Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film- 1966 (39th edition)
* - XIIth Pula Film Festival (Yugoslavia), 1965: GRAND PRIX (Golden Arena) for Best Film,
* - XIIth Pula Film Festival (Yugoslavia), 1965: GRAND PRIX (Golden Arena) for Best Director
* - XIIth Pula Film Festival (Yugoslavia), 1965: GRAND PRIX (Golden Arena) for Best Actor
* - XIIth Pula Film Festival (Yugoslavia), 1965: Critics' Award Milton Manaki
* - Bronze Plaque (Bronzana Plaketa) BUNINOVA VRATA, Yugoslav award, 1965
* - XVth Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) International Festival, 1966 GRAND PRIX for Best Film (HLAVNA CENA I)
* - IXth Acapulco Festival of Best Movies, 1966 - Award "PALENKA", Golden Inca Head
* - Festival of Italian neorealism Avellino, 1966 - Award LACENO D'ORO
* - In 1979, in a survey organized by the Yugoslav Film Institute for The Best Film in the history of the Yugoslav Cinema, the Yugoslav Film Critics and Artists put Three in second place behind I Even Met Happy Gypsies, from Aleksandar Petrovi, declared the Best Film in the History of Yugoslav Cinema.
See also
* List of submissions to the 39th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
* List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
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