TIME MACHINE
VIRGINA
DIRECTOR: Srđan Karanović
COUNTRY: Yugoslavia
YEAR/DURATION: 1991. • 101′
drama
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Srđan Karanović
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Slobodan Trninić
- EDITOR: Branka Ćeperac
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Nikola Pajić
- COSTUME DESIGN: Sanda Jakubek, Mirjana Kerkez, Franjo Simek
- OSCORE: Zoran Simjanović
- CAST: Miodrag Krivokapić, Ina Gogalova, Marta Keler, Slobodan Milovanović, Igor Bjelan, Slađana Bebić
- PRODUCERS: Rajko Grlić, Mladen Koceić, Čedomir Kolar, Đorđe Milojević, Cloudie Ossard
- PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Centar film (Serbia), Televizija Beograd, Maestro film, Constellation productions (France)
- RESTORED BY: Jugoslavenska kinoteka
Festivals and awards
Berlin International Film Festival 1991 – Felix Award
Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema 1992 – Golden Palm
Niš Film Festival 1991 – Emperor Konstantin Award
La Baule European Film Festival 1991 – Grand Prix
Synopsis
In the backwater surrounding the city of Knin, families without a male heir were considered cursed and doomed. To save themselves from damnation, such families proclaimed one of their daughters “a virgina”, or a man, hiding the truth about the child’s real gender as their most precious secret.
Trailer
About the director
Srđan Karanović (1945) graduated in film and TV directing from FAMU in 1970. He directed more than seventy documentary, short feature, commission, and commercial films. Working in TV, he stood out with his 10-episode series Grlom u jagode. His feature films Fragnance of Wild Flowers (1978), Petrija’s Wreath (1980), Something in Between (1982), Jagode u grlu (1985), A Film with No Name (1988), and Virdžina (1991) were screened at all important global film festivals with great success and sold to more than thirty countries around the world. In 2003 he made the film Loving Glances, and seven years later the acclaimed romance drama Solemn Promise (2009).
Screening
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- VALLI CINEMA – MONDAY 14.7.2025.
18:00
- VALLI CINEMA – MONDAY 14.7.2025.
FREE ENTRANCE
