If the Seed Doesn't Die ( Daca bobul nu moare (Ako zrno ne umre) ) ( Wenn das Samenkorn nicht stirbt (If the Seed Does not Die) )

If the Seed Doesn't Die (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Daca bobul nu moare (Ako zrno ne umre)
Alternate Title: Wenn das Samenkorn nicht stirbt (If the Seed Does not Die)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Romanian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Serbian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
Romania ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Serbia and Montenegro ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Sinisa Dragin

Written By:
Sinisa Dragin

Actors:
Ioana Barbu ..... Ina
Alexandru Bindea ..... Taxi Driver
Franz Buchrieser ..... Hans
Dan Condurache ..... Nicu
Bryan Jardine ..... Duncan
Horatiu Malaele ..... Cornel
Mustafa Nadarevic ..... Iorgovan
Milenko Pavlov ..... Priest
Relu Poalelungi ..... Nora
Goran Radakovic ..... Prle
Simona Stoicescu ..... Sumski
Milos Tanaskovic
Valentin Teodosiu

Synopsis:

***WARNING***The Film contains English & Dutch subtitles. Audio is a mix of Serbian, German, Romanian and English languages***
Romania about 200 years ago. Peasants drag a wooden church across a frozen lake to their village. They're not allowed to build one, because they are Orthodox Christians. The Balkan region in the post-communist era. A Serbian man is looking for the body of his son, who died in a car crash in Romania. A Romanian man wants to find his daughter, who was forced to work in a brothel in Kosovo. They meet by the illegal border crossing on the River Danube. What follows is a depressing, black tragicomedy in which there is plenty of drinking and prostitution, corpses are sold for a thousand euros and corruption flourishes. All against the background of the turbulent political history of the Balkans with continually fragmented nation-states and a Babylonian mix of languages. That the region has always been the site of fierce and often bloody conflicts is made clear by Sinisa Dragin (Tiger Award winner in 2002 with Every Day God Kisses Us on the Mouth) in this incomparable succession of absurd dramatic situations.

Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church up the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited.

Played out against the background of the sombre and corrupt Balkans is this story about two fathers. One is looking for the corpse of his son, killed in an accident; the other is looking for his daughter who has ended up in prostitution. The dramatic situations are laced with black humour by Dragin (Tiger Award winner 2002).

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 10 March, 2012.

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