The Knife (1999)
March 19, 1999Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
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

Aleksandar Milic
Original Music Composer

Branislav Milošević
Editor

Slobodan Stojanović
Writer

Predrag Todorović
Camera Operator

Toma Babovic
Original Music Composer

Srna Lango

Mile Stanković

Ranko Kovačević

Ljiljana Kontić

Bojana Zečević
Media.

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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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.
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