I Even Met Happy Gypsies
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I Even Met Happy Gypsies is a 1967 Yugoslav
film
by Serbia
n director
Aleksandar Petrović. Its original Serbian
title is Skupljači perja, which means The Feather Gatherers. The film is centered around Roma people's life in a village in northern Vojvodina
, but it also deals with subtler themes such as love, ethnic and social relationships. Beside Bekim Fehmiu
, Olivera Vučo
, Bata Živojinović
and Mija Aleksić
, film features a cast of Roma actors speaking the Romani language
. I Even Met Happy Gypsies is considered as one of the best films of so called Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema.
), is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence (Olivera Vučo
), is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa (Gordana Jovanović), who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church. Tisa tries to get to Belgrade, while Bora stabs a man in a knife fight. They are both, therefore, exiled from their Romani camp, yet their adventures continue.
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
it was nominated for the Palme d'Or
and won the Special Grand Prize of the Jury
and the FIPRESCI
Prize.
The film was nominated for the 1968 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
and for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
. Bekim Fehmiu
also won a Golden Arena award for Best Actor at the 1966 Pula Film Festival
for his portrayal of Bora.
film
by Serbia
n director
Aleksandar Petrović. Its original Serbian
title is Skupljači perja, which means The Feather Gatherers. The film is centered around Roma people's life in a village in northern Vojvodina
, but it also deals with subtler themes such as love, ethnic and social relationships. Beside Bekim Fehmiu
, Olivera Vučo
, Bata Živojinović
and Mija Aleksić
, film features a cast of Roma actors speaking the Romani language
. I Even Met Happy Gypsies is considered as one of the best films of so called Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema.
), is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence (Olivera Vučo
), is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa (Gordana Jovanović), who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church. Tisa tries to get to Belgrade, while Bora stabs a man in a knife fight. They are both, therefore, exiled from their Romani camp, yet their adventures continue.
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
it was nominated for the Palme d'Or
and won the Special Grand Prize of the Jury
and the FIPRESCI
Prize.
The film was nominated for the 1968 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
and for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
. Bekim Fehmiu
also won a Golden Arena award for Best Actor at the 1966 Pula Film Festival
for his portrayal of Bora.
film
by Serbia
n director
Aleksandar Petrović. Its original Serbian
title is Skupljači perja, which means The Feather Gatherers. The film is centered around Roma people's life in a village in northern Vojvodina
, but it also deals with subtler themes such as love, ethnic and social relationships. Beside Bekim Fehmiu
, Olivera Vučo
, Bata Živojinović
and Mija Aleksić
, film features a cast of Roma actors speaking the Romani language
. I Even Met Happy Gypsies is considered as one of the best films of so called Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema.
), is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence (Olivera Vučo
), is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa (Gordana Jovanović), who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church. Tisa tries to get to Belgrade, while Bora stabs a man in a knife fight. They are both, therefore, exiled from their Romani camp, yet their adventures continue.
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
it was nominated for the Palme d'Or
and won the Special Grand Prize of the Jury
and the FIPRESCI
Prize.
The film was nominated for the 1968 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
and for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
. Bekim Fehmiu
also won a Golden Arena award for Best Actor at the 1966 Pula Film Festival
for his portrayal of Bora.
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
by Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
Aleksandar Petrović. Its original Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
title is Skupljači perja, which means The Feather Gatherers. The film is centered around Roma people's life in a village in northern Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
, but it also deals with subtler themes such as love, ethnic and social relationships. Beside Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
, Olivera Vučo
Olivera Vuco
Olivera Vučo, née Vukotić, , also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović is a Serbian actress and singer. She reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.She studied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade...
, Bata Živojinović
Bata Živojinovic
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović is a Serbian actor and politician.-Biography:Živojinović was born in the town of Koraćica, Mladenovac, Serbia , under the Kosmaj mountain...
and Mija Aleksić
Mija Aleksic
Milosav "Mija" Aleksić was a beloved Serbian actor.Aleksić was born in Gornja Crnuća village in Gornji Milanovac municipality, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During World War II, when Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 17-year-old Mija Aleksić attended high school in Kragujevac...
, film features a cast of Roma actors speaking the Romani language
Romani language
Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy is any of several languages of the Romani people. They are Indic, sometimes classified in the "Central" or "Northwestern" zone, and sometimes treated as a branch of their own....
. I Even Met Happy Gypsies is considered as one of the best films of so called Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema.
Plot
The protagonist, Bora (Bekim FehmiuBekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
), is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence (Olivera Vučo
Olivera Vuco
Olivera Vučo, née Vukotić, , also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović is a Serbian actress and singer. She reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.She studied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade...
), is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa (Gordana Jovanović), who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church. Tisa tries to get to Belgrade, while Bora stabs a man in a knife fight. They are both, therefore, exiled from their Romani camp, yet their adventures continue.
Cast
- Bekim FehmiuBekim FehmiuBekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
as Bora - Olivera VučoOlivera VucoOlivera Vučo, née Vukotić, , also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović is a Serbian actress and singer. She reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.She studied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade...
as Lence - Bata ŽivojinovićBata ŽivojinovicVelimir "Bata" Živojinović is a Serbian actor and politician.-Biography:Živojinović was born in the town of Koraćica, Mladenovac, Serbia , under the Kosmaj mountain...
as Mirta - Gordana Jovanović as Tisa
- Mija AleksićMija AleksicMilosav "Mija" Aleksić was a beloved Serbian actor.Aleksić was born in Gornja Crnuća village in Gornji Milanovac municipality, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During World War II, when Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 17-year-old Mija Aleksić attended high school in Kragujevac...
as Pavle
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
- Severin BijelićSeverin BijelićSeverin Bijelić was a Serbian actor. He appeared in 77 films and television shows between 1949 and 1972. He starred in the 1967 film The Rats Woke Up, which won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Perfidy * Legends of Anika * The...
as Bigoted man - Stojan Decermić as Hladnjaca driver 1
- Milivoje Đorđević as Sandor
- Rahela Ferari as Igumanija
- Etelka Filipovski as Bora's wife
- Milorad Jovanović as Toni
- Zoran Longinović as Islednik 1
- Branislav-Ciga Milenković
- Bozidar Pavičević-Longa as Hladnjaca driver 2
- Velizar Petrović
- Djordje Pura as Islednik 2
- Nina Sajin
- Milivoje Tomić as Romanian
- Janez VrhovecJanez VrhovecJanez Vrhovec was a Serbian actor. Vrhovec appeared in a number of Yugoslav and Serbian films, as well as many international productions, in a career spanning almost five decades.-Selected filmography:*Perfidy...
as judge
Awards
At the 1967 Cannes Film Festival1967 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Alessandro Blasetti *Georges Lourau *Sergei Bondarchuk *René Bonnell *Jean-Louis Bory *Miklós Jancsó *Claude Lelouch *Shirley MacLaine...
it was nominated for the Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
and won the Special Grand Prize of the Jury
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
and the FIPRESCI
FIPRESCI
The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...
Prize.
The film was nominated for the 1968 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
and for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globes, an American film awards ceremony.Until 1986, it was known as the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film, meaning that any non-American film could be honoured...
. Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
also won a Golden Arena award for Best Actor at the 1966 Pula Film Festival
Pula Film Festival
The Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival which is held annually in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula arena since 1954. The festival is usually held in the summer, in July or August....
for his portrayal of Bora.
See also
- List of Yugoslavian films
- List of submissions to the 40th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
External links
I Even Met Happy Gypsies is a 1967 YugoslavSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
by Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
Aleksandar Petrović. Its original Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
title is Skupljači perja, which means The Feather Gatherers. The film is centered around Roma people's life in a village in northern Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
, but it also deals with subtler themes such as love, ethnic and social relationships. Beside Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
, Olivera Vučo
Olivera Vuco
Olivera Vučo, née Vukotić, , also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović is a Serbian actress and singer. She reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.She studied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade...
, Bata Živojinović
Bata Živojinovic
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović is a Serbian actor and politician.-Biography:Živojinović was born in the town of Koraćica, Mladenovac, Serbia , under the Kosmaj mountain...
and Mija Aleksić
Mija Aleksic
Milosav "Mija" Aleksić was a beloved Serbian actor.Aleksić was born in Gornja Crnuća village in Gornji Milanovac municipality, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During World War II, when Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 17-year-old Mija Aleksić attended high school in Kragujevac...
, film features a cast of Roma actors speaking the Romani language
Romani language
Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy is any of several languages of the Romani people. They are Indic, sometimes classified in the "Central" or "Northwestern" zone, and sometimes treated as a branch of their own....
. I Even Met Happy Gypsies is considered as one of the best films of so called Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema.
Plot
The protagonist, Bora (Bekim FehmiuBekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
), is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence (Olivera Vučo
Olivera Vuco
Olivera Vučo, née Vukotić, , also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović is a Serbian actress and singer. She reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.She studied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade...
), is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa (Gordana Jovanović), who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church. Tisa tries to get to Belgrade, while Bora stabs a man in a knife fight. They are both, therefore, exiled from their Romani camp, yet their adventures continue.
Cast
- Bekim FehmiuBekim FehmiuBekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
as Bora - Olivera VučoOlivera VucoOlivera Vučo, née Vukotić, , also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović is a Serbian actress and singer. She reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.She studied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade...
as Lence - Bata ŽivojinovićBata ŽivojinovicVelimir "Bata" Živojinović is a Serbian actor and politician.-Biography:Živojinović was born in the town of Koraćica, Mladenovac, Serbia , under the Kosmaj mountain...
as Mirta - Gordana Jovanović as Tisa
- Mija AleksićMija AleksicMilosav "Mija" Aleksić was a beloved Serbian actor.Aleksić was born in Gornja Crnuća village in Gornji Milanovac municipality, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During World War II, when Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 17-year-old Mija Aleksić attended high school in Kragujevac...
as Pavle
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
- Severin BijelićSeverin BijelićSeverin Bijelić was a Serbian actor. He appeared in 77 films and television shows between 1949 and 1972. He starred in the 1967 film The Rats Woke Up, which won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Perfidy * Legends of Anika * The...
as Bigoted man - Stojan Decermić as Hladnjaca driver 1
- Milivoje Đorđević as Sandor
- Rahela Ferari as Igumanija
- Etelka Filipovski as Bora's wife
- Milorad Jovanović as Toni
- Zoran Longinović as Islednik 1
- Branislav-Ciga Milenković
- Bozidar Pavičević-Longa as Hladnjaca driver 2
- Velizar Petrović
- Djordje Pura as Islednik 2
- Nina Sajin
- Milivoje Tomić as Romanian
- Janez VrhovecJanez VrhovecJanez Vrhovec was a Serbian actor. Vrhovec appeared in a number of Yugoslav and Serbian films, as well as many international productions, in a career spanning almost five decades.-Selected filmography:*Perfidy...
as judge
Awards
At the 1967 Cannes Film Festival1967 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Alessandro Blasetti *Georges Lourau *Sergei Bondarchuk *René Bonnell *Jean-Louis Bory *Miklós Jancsó *Claude Lelouch *Shirley MacLaine...
it was nominated for the Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
and won the Special Grand Prize of the Jury
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
and the FIPRESCI
FIPRESCI
The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...
Prize.
The film was nominated for the 1968 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
and for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globes, an American film awards ceremony.Until 1986, it was known as the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film, meaning that any non-American film could be honoured...
. Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
also won a Golden Arena award for Best Actor at the 1966 Pula Film Festival
Pula Film Festival
The Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival which is held annually in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula arena since 1954. The festival is usually held in the summer, in July or August....
for his portrayal of Bora.
See also
- List of Yugoslavian films
- List of submissions to the 40th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
External links
I Even Met Happy Gypsies is a 1967 YugoslavSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
by Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
Aleksandar Petrović. Its original Serbian
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
title is Skupljači perja, which means The Feather Gatherers. The film is centered around Roma people's life in a village in northern Vojvodina
Vojvodina
Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...
, but it also deals with subtler themes such as love, ethnic and social relationships. Beside Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
, Olivera Vučo
Olivera Vuco
Olivera Vučo, née Vukotić, , also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović is a Serbian actress and singer. She reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.She studied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade...
, Bata Živojinović
Bata Živojinovic
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović is a Serbian actor and politician.-Biography:Živojinović was born in the town of Koraćica, Mladenovac, Serbia , under the Kosmaj mountain...
and Mija Aleksić
Mija Aleksic
Milosav "Mija" Aleksić was a beloved Serbian actor.Aleksić was born in Gornja Crnuća village in Gornji Milanovac municipality, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During World War II, when Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 17-year-old Mija Aleksić attended high school in Kragujevac...
, film features a cast of Roma actors speaking the Romani language
Romani language
Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy is any of several languages of the Romani people. They are Indic, sometimes classified in the "Central" or "Northwestern" zone, and sometimes treated as a branch of their own....
. I Even Met Happy Gypsies is considered as one of the best films of so called Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema.
Plot
The protagonist, Bora (Bekim FehmiuBekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
), is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence (Olivera Vučo
Olivera Vuco
Olivera Vučo, née Vukotić, , also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović is a Serbian actress and singer. She reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.She studied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade...
), is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa (Gordana Jovanović), who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church. Tisa tries to get to Belgrade, while Bora stabs a man in a knife fight. They are both, therefore, exiled from their Romani camp, yet their adventures continue.
Cast
- Bekim FehmiuBekim FehmiuBekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
as Bora - Olivera VučoOlivera VucoOlivera Vučo, née Vukotić, , also known as Olivera Katarina and Olivera Petrović is a Serbian actress and singer. She reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.She studied at the academy for theatre, film, radio and television in Belgrade...
as Lence - Bata ŽivojinovićBata ŽivojinovicVelimir "Bata" Živojinović is a Serbian actor and politician.-Biography:Živojinović was born in the town of Koraćica, Mladenovac, Serbia , under the Kosmaj mountain...
as Mirta - Gordana Jovanović as Tisa
- Mija AleksićMija AleksicMilosav "Mija" Aleksić was a beloved Serbian actor.Aleksić was born in Gornja Crnuća village in Gornji Milanovac municipality, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During World War II, when Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 17-year-old Mija Aleksić attended high school in Kragujevac...
as Pavle
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
- Severin BijelićSeverin BijelićSeverin Bijelić was a Serbian actor. He appeared in 77 films and television shows between 1949 and 1972. He starred in the 1967 film The Rats Woke Up, which won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Perfidy * Legends of Anika * The...
as Bigoted man - Stojan Decermić as Hladnjaca driver 1
- Milivoje Đorđević as Sandor
- Rahela Ferari as Igumanija
- Etelka Filipovski as Bora's wife
- Milorad Jovanović as Toni
- Zoran Longinović as Islednik 1
- Branislav-Ciga Milenković
- Bozidar Pavičević-Longa as Hladnjaca driver 2
- Velizar Petrović
- Djordje Pura as Islednik 2
- Nina Sajin
- Milivoje Tomić as Romanian
- Janez VrhovecJanez VrhovecJanez Vrhovec was a Serbian actor. Vrhovec appeared in a number of Yugoslav and Serbian films, as well as many international productions, in a career spanning almost five decades.-Selected filmography:*Perfidy...
as judge
Awards
At the 1967 Cannes Film Festival1967 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Alessandro Blasetti *Georges Lourau *Sergei Bondarchuk *René Bonnell *Jean-Louis Bory *Miklós Jancsó *Claude Lelouch *Shirley MacLaine...
it was nominated for the Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
and won the Special Grand Prize of the Jury
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
and the FIPRESCI
FIPRESCI
The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...
Prize.
The film was nominated for the 1968 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
and for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globes, an American film awards ceremony.Until 1986, it was known as the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film, meaning that any non-American film could be honoured...
. Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.-Background:...
also won a Golden Arena award for Best Actor at the 1966 Pula Film Festival
Pula Film Festival
The Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival which is held annually in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula arena since 1954. The festival is usually held in the summer, in July or August....
for his portrayal of Bora.
See also
- List of Yugoslavian films
- List of submissions to the 40th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film