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Promise Me This
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Wikipedia article
'Promise Me This' ( / 'Zavet') is a film written and directed by the award-winning Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica. The film screened on May 26, 2007 at the 60th annual Cannes Film Festival.[http://www.b92.net//eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2007&mm=05&dd=24&nav_category=126&nav_id=41380 Two Serbian films compete at Cannes festival] by B92. May 24, 2007. The international title of the film is 'Promise Me This', but the film is known as 'Zavet' (, "the testament") in Serbian.
Plot
Set in Zlatibor District, an old man named ivojin Markovi (Aleksandar Berek), living in a remote village prays for his grandson Tsane (Uro Milovanovi) to go to the city (Uice), sell his cow and bring back a wife.
In the city he is supposed to meet up with his grandfather's stepbrother, but this man is dead. Instead, he meets this man's two grandsons, two good-natured brothers who are nevertheless small-time criminals and experts in demolition. Tsane soon clicks with these men, and also falls in love with a schoolgirl (Jasna, played by Marija Petronijevi), who he wants to marry as part of his testament with his grandfather (the other parts of the testament are to bring back an icon and a souvenir, which he should buy with the money he gets from selling the cow). He gets involved in this girl's family affairs, rescuing both her and her mother from prostitution and gangsters headed by a man called Bajo (Miki Manojlovi), and the new group of people return to the small village in time to celebrate ivojin's wedding to his neighbor, despite the gangsters' best efforts to stop the celebration, which results in a double wedding.
Cast
* Uro Milovanovi
* Marija Petronijevi
* Miki Manojlovi
* Aleksandar Berek
* Ljiljana Blagojevi
* Stribor Kusturica
References
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