TIME MACHINE
THE DERVISH AND DEATH
DIRECTOR : Zdravko Velimirović
COUNTRY: Yugoslavia
YEAR/DURATION: 1974. • 108′
drama
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FILM
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Borislav Mihajlović-Mihiz, prema istoimenom romanu Meše Selimovića
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nenad Jovičić
- EDITOR: Iva Kosi
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Vlastimir Gavrik
- COSTUME DESIGN: Ljiljana Dragović
- SCORE: Zoran Hristić
- CAST: Voja Mirić, Bata Živojinović, Boris Dvornik, Branko Pleša, Pavle Vuisić, Olivera Katarina, Špela Rozin
- PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Avala film, Bosna film, Centar film, Kosovo film, Studio Titograd, Zeta film
- RESTORED BY: Jugoslavenska kinoteka, A1 Serbia
Synopsis
Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed.
Festivals and awards
Pula Film Festival 1974 – Great Silver Arena, Golden Arena for Best Director, Golden Arena for Best Production Design, Golden Arena for Best Supporting Actor (Abdurahman Šalja), C.I.D.A.L.C. Award
Trailer
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About the director
Zdravko Velimirović
(Cetinje, Montenegro, 1930 – Belgrade, 2005) was a Yugoslav director and screenwriter, university professor, and member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He had directed a total of eight feature films and over 50 documentaries and short films, 20 radio dramas and five theater plays. The first of these plays he directed at the Pula Theater, today’s Istrian National Theater. He graduated in directing from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where he was later a professor and head of the film department. After his studies in Belgrade, he completed his specialization at the IDHEC film school in Paris. He made the first of his many documentary films in the mid-1950s. In 1960 he directed his first feature film, the crime The Fourteenth Day (1960), which was nominated for the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 1961. where he also made his debut as the youngest director. He continued making short films, and directed his next feature film, Certified: No Mines (1965), with Yurii Lysenko. He then directed his first partisan film, Mount of Lament (1968), the adaptation of the novel by Mihailo Lalić. He started using colour in the 1970s and directed the adaptation of the novel by Meša Selimović The Dervish and Death (1974), which was selected as the Yugoslav submission for the Academy Award for Foreign Film. Two years later, he directed another partisan film, The Peaks of Zelengora (1976), and continued in the same tone with The Battle for the Southern Railway (1978), while the historical drama Dorotej (1981) takes place in mediaeval Serbia. His war drama Time of the Leopards (1985) was partially filmed in Mozambique. He has won numerous Yugoslav and international awards.
Screening
- VALLI CINEMA – THURSDAY 18.7.2024.
18:00
FREE ENTRANCE
