The Knife (1999)
March 19, 1999Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Žarko Laušević
Alija Osmanović / Ilija Jugović
Bojana Maljević
Milica Janković
Aleksandar Berček
Halil 'Sikter' Efendija
Ljiljana Blagojević
Rabija Osmanović
Petar Božović
Sabahudin Aga / Atifaga Tanović
Velimir Živojinović
Nićifor Jugović
Nikola Kojo
Milan Vilenjak
Josif Tatić
Kemal Osmanović
Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić
Hodža
Mira Banjac
Nana Hikmeta
Dragan Maksimović
Zulfikar
Svetozar Cvetković
Selim Osmanovic
Marko Baćović
Četnički vojvoda
Nebojša Bakočević
Ustaški lekar
Branimir Brstina
Vojnik za volanom
Vojin Ćetković
Ljubo Nikšićanin
Slobodan Ćustić
Husein Osmanović
Bojan Maljević
Producer
Vladan Dujović
Bojnik
Boris Isaković
Hodža koji nasleđuje Valiju
Milutin Jevđenijević
Jedan od Osmanovića
Veljko Despotović
ProductionDesigner
Nenad Jezdić
Mladi Atifaga Tanović
Dubravko Jovanović
Bratoljub Jugović, Alijin otac
Miodrag Kapor
Mladi Jugović
Bojana Kovačević
Ljubica
Miodrag Krivokapić
Risto Krivodolac
Cvijeta Mesić
Miličina tetka
Milica Mihajlović
Ambra
Mihajlo 'Bata' Paskaljević
Poslastičar
Dragan Petrović 'Pele'
Ognjen
Ras Rastoder
Šofer
Goran Sultanović
Ustaški satnik
Dušan Tadić
Profesor
Dragan Zarić
Đorđe Vilenjak
Miroslav Lekić
Director / Writer
Vuk Drašković
Writer
Igor Bojović
Writer
Slobodan Stojanović
Writer
Predrag Todorović
Camera Operator
Toma Babovic
Original Music Composer
Aleksandar Milic
Original Music Composer
Branislav Milošević
Editor
Srna Lango
Mile Stanković
Ranko Kovačević
Ljiljana Kontić
Bojana Zečević
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The Dagger (Serbian: Нож, romanized: Nož, lit. 'Knife') is a 1999 Yugoslav war film directed by Miroslav Lekić. The film was written by Miroslav Lekić, Slobodan Stanojević and Igor Bojović. The plot is based on Vuk Drašković's novel of the same name.
Set in the 1960s and observed from the point of view of Alija Osmanović, a young Muslim medical student raised by a single mother, his entire family was slaughtered and his baby brother kidnapped by Chetniks during the Second World War, as the aftermath of a violent family feud between the Jugović (Christian) and Osmanović (Muslim) families. He not only learns that the Osmanović family were once a branch of the Jugović family who converted to Islam during the Ottoman era, but that, unbeknownst to his mother, he himself was a baby taken from the Jugović family, after the massacre on Christmas Eve in 1942. With both families now extinct, and Alija, as the descendant of both, torn between two cultures and two identities, he struggles to maintain his inner peace, desperately searching for his long lost step-brother and fighting the prejudices against the romantic relationship he has with a Serbian classmate.
The film is based on fictive events of World War II and is centered on the atrocious crimes committed during that period, in particular the Jugović and Osmanović families. According to Vuk Drašković, the original novel is loosely based on the Pridvorica massacre.In 1999, the film was screened at the 13th Montenegro Film Festival, and gained five featured awards. The film also earned the “Fipresci Award” for Directing, five acting awards in the Niš Film Festival and the “Crystal Star” at the Brussels Film Festival.