The Dagger (1999)
- Original title
- Нож
- Directed by
- Miroslav Lekić
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 16 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young Muslim medical student in 1960s Serbia discovers he was actually born into a Christian family that was massacred during World War II. He struggles with his mixed heritage and searches for his kidnapped step-brother while facing prejudice in his romantic relationship with a Serbian classmate.
melancholictenseintrospectiveemotionally heavyslow-burngrippingbroodingvisceral
What happens
The Dagger (Serbian: Нож, romanized: Nož, lit. 'Knife') is a 1999 Serbian war film directed by Miroslav Lekić. The film was written by Miroslav Lekić, Slobodan Stanojević and Igor Bojović. The plot is based on Vuk Drašković's novel of the same name. 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 fictive events of World War II and is centered on the atrocious crimes committed during that period, in particular the Jugović and Osmanović families. According to Vuk Drašković, the original novel is loosely based on the Pridvorica massacre. In 1999, the film was screened at the 13th Montenegro Film Festival, and gained five featured awards. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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