Virdžina
Sign in to saveVirgina (Serbo-Croatian: Virdžina, Serbian Cyrillic: Вирџина) is a 1991 Yugoslav drama film directed by Srđan Karanović.
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6.9"Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man.
Released: 1991-04-05101 minDir: Srđan KaranovićDrama
Cast
- Miodrag Krivokapić as Timotije
- Ina Gogálová as Dostana
- Slobodan Milovanović as Paun
- Mirko Vlahović as Momak
- Matija Prskalo as Najstarija sestra
- Vjenceslav Kapural as Josip
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Key dates
- Published
- 1991
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Original language
- Serbo-Croatian
- Main subject
- Albanian sworn virgins
- Director
- Srđan Karanović
- Screenwriter
- Srđan Karanović
- Composer
- Zoran Simjanović
- Narrative location
- Yugoslavia
- Duration
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Virgina (Serbo-Croatian: Virdžina, Serbian Cyrillic: Вирџина) is a 1991 Yugoslav drama film directed by Srđan Karanović.
==Plot== The action of the film takes place at the end of the 19th century, in a remote village of Kninska Krajina. At that time, it was the province of Dalmatia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.