The Dagger (1999 film)

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The Dagger
Нож
Nož
The Dagger (film).jpg
Directed by
Written byMiroslav Lekić
Slobodan Stojanović
Based onNož, a novel
by Vuk Drašković
Produced byBojan Maljević
StarringŽarko Laušević
CinematographyVeljko Despotović
Edited byBranislav Milošević
Music byToma Babović
Aleksandar Milić
Distributed by
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryYugoslavia
LanguageSerbian

The Dagger (Serbian: Нож / Nož, "Knife") is a 1999 Yugoslav war film directed by . The film was written by Miroslav Lekić, and Igor Bojović. The plot is based on Vuk Drašković's novel of the same name.

The main motive of the film is the eventually disclosed nonsense of the ethnic division in Bosnia, pointing out the same historical origin of both opposed ethnic groups, Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Muslims - Orthodox Christians and Sunni Muslims, respectively. Set in the 1960s and observed from the point of view of Alija Osmanović, 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 Jugović (Christian) and Osmanović (Muslim) families. He not only learns that the Osmanović family were once a branch of the Jugović family who converted to Islam during the Ottoman era, but that, unbeknownst to his mother, he himself was a baby taken from the Jugović 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 true events of World War II and is centered on the atrocious crimes committed against Serbs during that period, in particular the Jugović and Osmanović families.

In 1999, the film was screened at the 13th Montenegro Film Festival, and gained five featured awards.[1][2] The film also earned the “Fipresci Award” for Directing, five acting awards in the Niš Film Festival and the “Crystal Star” at the Brussels Film Festival.[2]

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References[]

  1. ^ "13. filmski festival". Montenegro Film Festival. Freshidea. 1999. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  2. ^ a b "The Dagger". Monte Royal. © Monte Royal Pictures International. 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.

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