Cinema
Macedonian Blood Wedding
Македонска крвава свадба
Trajče Popov · 1967
Synopsis
In the village of Stradalovo, under Ottoman rule, the young Cveta is abducted in the middle of the harvest by Bey Osman, who has her taken to his seraglio. With the help of the hodja Selim and two women already converted, he presses her to embrace Islam, to renounce her own people and to become one of his wives. Her brother Duko, the shepherd Spase who loves her and the village priest demand her release, then bring the matter before the consuls and the court, where Cveta refuses to convert; returned to her family, she prepares her wedding.
Context
The screenplay is by a Macedonian writer, from the play of the same name, written in 1900. It is its director's first feature-length fiction film and Vardar Film's fourteenth; it runs for one hundred and two minutes and was released in Skopje in early 1968. Vera Čukić plays Cveta, Zafir Hadžimanov Spase, Risto Šiškov the bey, with Pavle Vujisić and Petre Prličko. The film divides the action into six parts, against five acts for the play, and gives more room to the dervishes and the Muslim characters.
Who it is for
In Macedonian with subtitles, a film of about an hour and three quarters. It helps to know that it adapts a play from 1900 and changes several scenes.
Prizes and reception
Golden Arena for set design at Pula in 1968 for Nikola Lazarevski, and a gold award in 1969 for its success in the Soviet Union.
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