In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith.
Acting
Laušević's shattered stillness carries every frame.
Direction
Lekić turns landscape into inherited memory.
Writing
A name change that means everything and nothing.
Director
Miroslav Lekić
Žarko Laušević
Alija Osmanović / Ilija Jugović
Bojana Maljević
Milica Janković
Aleksandar Berček
Halil 'Sikter' Efendija
Ljiljana Blagojević
Rabija Osmanović
Petar Božović
Sabahudin Aga / Atifaga Tanović
Velimir Živojinović
Nićifor Jugović
Nikola Kojo
Milan Vilenjak
Josif Tatić
Kemal Osmanović
Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić
Hodža
Mira Banjac
Nana Hikmeta
Dragan Maksimović
Zulfikar
Marko Baćović
Četnički vojvoda
Nebojša Bakočević
Ustaški lekar
Branimir Brstina
Vojnik za volanom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made four years after the Srebrenica massacre, the film weaponizes Yugoslavia's erased Muslim-Christian naming taboos. The 'evil' is barely metaphor.
Žarko Laušević was a genuine political exile during filming; his own identity documents were contested. Method acting via biography.
YU
