BAD BLOOD

BASED ON THE NOVEL TAINTED/IMPURE BLOOD AND THE SHORT STORIES OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS AND CELEBRATED SERBIAN WRITERS FROM THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES, BORISAV BORE STANKOVIC, THIS STORY – ABOUT THE PASSION, LOVE, DESIRES AND INTRIGUES OF MEMBERS OF A WEALTHY SERB FAMILY FROM THE SOUTHERN SERBIA, FROM THE TOWN OF VRANJE – TAKES PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19^th CENTURY, DURING THE DECLINE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.

THE PLOT REVOLVES AROUND THE SOCIAL TURMOIL RELATED TO THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW URBAN CLASS AND THE INEVITABLE CONFLICT OF THE NEWLY INTRODUCED EUROPEAN VALUES WITH THE UNCOMPROMISING AND PATRIARCHAL FAMILY TRADITION OF THE ‘OLD ORIENT’.  THE FAMILY, WHICH GAINED ITS WEALTH AND REPUTATION DURING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, DESTROYS ITSELF UNDER THE FORCE OF THE ‘NEW EPOCH’ AND DISAPEARANCE OF KNOWN VALUES, MORALITIES AND ETHICAL RULES.

A DEEPLY EMOTIONAL FAMILY DRAMA – ABOUT LUST, POWER AND HOPELESSNESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL INTROSPECTIONS, CLASHES BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE NEWLY SHAPED URBAN FAMILY AND THE OLD PAROCHIAL FAMILY – IS SET UP AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE SOUTH SERBIAN FOLKLORE THAT GIVES THE FILM A UNIQUE TONE THAT TIES UP THE TRAGIC OUTCOMES WITH THE ‘MAGIC’ OF SOUTHERN SERBIA’S DAILY LIFE IN THE YEARS LEADING UP TO THE END OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.

    CAST: Dragan Bjelogrlić, Dragan Mićanović, Nela Mihajlovic, Katarina Radivojević, Feđa Štukan, Aleksandar Stojković, Miljana Kravić, Milena Predić, Anđela Jovanović, Dejan Bućin, Tim Seyfi, Sára Sandeva, Marko Grabež, Nedim Nezirović , Aleksandar Ristoski, Milica Gojković …

DIRECTOR: Milutin Petrović

SCREENPLAY: Vojislav Nanović & Milena Markovic

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Erol Zubčević

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Aleksandar Ranđelović

EDITING: Đorđe Marković

SET DESIGN: Milenko Jeremić

COSTUME DESIGN: Marina Medenica

FILM DIRECTOR: Ivan Krstović

PRODUCEDER: Snezana van Hauvelingen

PRODUCTION: This and That Productions

AWARDS:

• Audience Award for Best Film – European Film Festival Palić
• First Prize – for screenwriter Vojislav Nanović and script adaptation by  Milena   Marković – 45. Film Screenplay Festival, Vrnjačka Banja

• Best acting achievement (whole acting ensemble) – Danube Film Fest, Smederevo
• Best Actor – Dragan Bjelogrlić – 4^th Valter Film Festival, Mladenovac
• Best Actress – Katarina Radivojević – 4^th Valter Film Festival, Mladenovac
• Special Award for Outstanding Acting Achievement – Feđa Stukan – 56. Film Encounters Festival, Niš

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