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Title: Films


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Films
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Film Today Tito and Me
  • Director Goran Markovic
  • Released in 1993

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Film so far
  • Communal apartment stressful
  • Adulation of Tito (1954)
  • Ideological correctness
  • Political prisoner (art historian) now working at
    docks
  • Schooling praise Tito
  • Result enormously heroic figure to children
  • Parents cautious

4
Zorans Education
  • Home life
  • School life
  • First girlfriend Jasna
  • Idealism, hero worship..

5
The Pilgrimage
  • Cult of personality
  • Religious dimension
  • Comrade Raja
  • Secret Service

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Adventures
  • Lost boy
  • Visit to the castle
  • Trouble with authorities

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Film Before the Rain
  • "Before the Rain refers to the feeling of heavy
    expectation, when the skies are pregnant with the
    possibility of an outburst, when the people are
    silent, waiting for a tragedy of cleansing,"
    writer/director Milcho Manchevski
  • 1994 directed by Milcho Manchevski
  • Rade erbedia
  • Macedonia-Great Britain

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Milcho Manchevski
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Awards
  • Released in 1995
  • Independent Spirit Award,
  • Best Foreign Film, 1996
  • Oscar nominee, 1995 Golden Lion for the Best
    Movie, Venice, 1995
  • 30 awards overall

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Film Before the Rain
  • Novice Kiril discovers visitor
  • Murder suspect-fugitive-Albanian
  • Relatives of victimsearch
  • Violence
  • Suspense
  • Questions

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Puzzles (so far)
  • Cut to a funeral procession
  • Who is it?
  • Who is the British woman?
  • Why is she there?
  • Who is the boy taking pictures?
  • Of what?
  • Time does not end the circle is not round. What
    does it mean?

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Eastern Orthodoxy
  • Orthodox churches
  • Icons, iconostasis
  • Monastic life
  • Macedonian setting
  • Excellent music as background

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Language and culture differences
  • Macedonian Orthodox
  • Macedonian Muslim/Albanian
  • Different languages
  • Peaceful coexistence?
  • Identity language, religious label (not
    doctrine), heritage

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Human message (so far)
  • Violence close to the surface
  • Children, ninja games, bullets in the fire
  • Macedonian men seeking revenge random violence
    (against cat)
  • Rain coming
  • Garden provides sustenance (tomatoes given to
    girl)
  • Monks offer protection

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Religious-social issues
  • Eye for an eye
  • Turn the other cheek
  • Five centuries of Turkish rule
  • Revenge

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Film
  • Narrative devices
  • Unconventional chronology

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Rain-2
  • Kiril and Zamira are discovered
  • Kiril is kicked out of the monastery
  • Kiril and Zemfira leave together
  • Zemfiras grandfather and brothers/cousins find
    them
  • Zemfira tries to leave with Kiril and is killed
    by her brother

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Rain 3
  • Second section (Faces first was Words)
  • Anne showers, weeping
  • Anne finds out shes pregnant
  • Anne meets her mother
  • Alexander joins them
  • Alex and Anne in the taxi

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Rain 4
  • Be ready for narrative surprises, shifts in
    chronology
  • Violence continues why?
  • Violence in the restaurant
  • Chronology issues
  • Alexs return third section Pictures

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Alex Returns to Macedonia
  • Skopje (capital)
  • Old and new
  • UN presence
  • Native village
  • Old and new

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Rain 5
  • Relatives
  • Visit to Zekir
  • Hana relationship
  • Previous visits
  • Relationship with people in the village
  • Hanas daughter Zamira?
  • Alex and the Doctor-Vet
  • Death of Alexs cousin
  • Thirst for revenge

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Issues
  • Language barriers
  • Cultural barriers
  • Weapons

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Disintegration
  • Multilingualism (after 1981)
  • Divisive myth Turkish rule
  • Hospitality (Zekirs grandson)

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Five Centurie of Turkish Slavery?
  • Mid-15th 1912
  • Servitude, struggle, liberation
  • Explains backwardness, marginalization
  • All problems the Turks
  • Even the Turks blame their problems on the
    Empire

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Reality
  • 20th century history contradicts all this
  • WWII Western Macedonia part of fascist Greater
    Albania
  • Macedonian partisans-communists fought Albanian
    National Front
  • In early and mid-90s Turkey provided economic
    support to Macedonia
  • Greek blockade in South
  • UN Embargo on trade with Serbia (North)
  • No tensions between Turks and Macedonians in
    Eastern Macedonia (few Albanians)

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Film as Fable (with a warning)
  • Cycle/circle of violence
  • Mistrust, hopelessness
  • Us vs Them
  • Retreat to archaic value systems
  • Tribal-patriarchal
  • Revenge/blood killings
  • Women property and
  • Not roundpossibility for escape from violence

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Irony something is more important than blood
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Escape? Reason for hope?
  • Kiril in the West
  • Anne will have baby
  • Wedding scene could be Albanian or Macedonian

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Bridge on the Drina
  • Ivo Andrics Bridge on the Drina
  • P. 72 is logical end of first section building
    the bridge

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History of the bridge
  • 16th century
  • Years to build follow the seasons
  • Slave labor (early years)

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Cultures, hierarchies, identities
  • References to conversions
  • Tension between Christians and Muslims
  • History and myth
  • Power struggles
  • Violence

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Geography and terminology
  • Drina River
  • Viegrad
  • Kapia (kapija) and sofa

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Bridge as Character
  • Organic grows, changes with town
  • Vital link
  • Witness to historical change
  • Participant in that change

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Features
  • Numerous characters
  • Every time period, 15th-early 20th
  • Historical novel

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History of the bridge
  • 16th century
  • Years to build follow the seasons
  • Slave labor (early years)

36
Cultures, hierarchies, identities
  • References to conversions
  • Tension between Christians and Muslims
  • History and myth
  • Power struggles
  • Violence

37
Geography and terminology
  • Drina River
  • Viegrad
  • Kapia (kapija) and sofa

38
Bridge as Character
  • Organic grows, changes with town
  • Vital link
  • Witness to historical change
  • Participant in that change

39
Features
  • Numerous characters
  • Every time period, 15th-early 20th
  • Historical novel

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Characters
  • Grand Vezir Mehmed Pasha
  • Kraljevic Marko
  • Radisav of Unite
  • Abidaga
  • Tosun Effendi
  • Maestro Antonio
  • Vila(s)
  • Man from Plevlje
  • Merdjan

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Continued..
  • Reaction to impalement
  • Death of Radisav
  • Bribing Merdjan
  • Madness of Man from Plevlje
  • Removal of Abidaga
  • Replacement by Arif Beg
  • Building of Han
  • Completion of bridge
  • Assassination of Mehmed Pasha

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Influence of Historical Events
  • Decline of the Han
  • Great floods
  • Effects of Serbian revolts against Turks
  • Guardhouse and its victims

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Bridge as Character
  • Organic grows, changes with town
  • Vital link
  • Witness to historical change
  • Participant in that change

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Bridge
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Bridge
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Bridge 1900
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Bridge
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Geography and terminology
  • Drina River
  • Viegrad
  • Kapia (kapija) and sofa

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Bridge as Character
  • Organic grows, changes with town
  • Vital link
  • Witness to historical change
  • Participant in that change

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Features
  • Numerous characters
  • Every time period, 15th-early 20th
  • Historical novel
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