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The Most Glorious of Wars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDeath does not exist, there are only migrations\u201d…<\/strong><\/em>
\u201cThey left and behind them there was nothing. Nothing.\u201d Crnjanski<\/strong> <\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cI  always thought that Migrations was a seminal work, Petrovi\u0107 said. I always wanted to adapt it for the screen. First of all, because it is a wonderful story whose heroes epitomized the margins of Central Europe in the 18th century  \u2013  and what is marginalized is always interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second of all,  I find it very relevant to the present day. <\/strong><\/em>There is a striking parallelism between this time and our own; a time of migrations and population mixing, where the old rules have fallen without giving rise to new ones, where values have been lost, and where people live in disorder and indiscipline, looking for something that has not yet been born. It is this time of change and confusion during important moments of mutation that I want to express, all the while conserving a writer\u2019s rhapsodic tone.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Production:<\/b><\/td>France, Yugoslavia 1989<\/td><\/tr>
Executive<\/strong> p<\/strong>roduction<\/b>:<\/td>\u00abTRI\u00bb Beograd, Yugoslav-French film<\/td><\/tr>
Screenplay<\/strong>:<\/td>After the novel “Migrations” by Milo\u0161 Crnjanski
Aleksandar Petrovi\u0107 in collaboration with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze<\/td><\/tr>
Director<\/strong>:<\/td>Aleksandar Petrovi\u0107<\/td><\/tr>
Set<\/strong> design<\/strong>:<\/td>Milenko Jeremi\u0107, Boris Moravec<\/td><\/tr>
Cinematography<\/strong>:<\/td>Witold Dabal, Igor Luther<\/td><\/tr>
Art director<\/strong>:<\/td>Coka \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107<\/td><\/tr>
Production<\/strong>:<\/td>Nikola Popovi\u0107, Goran Crnjanski<\/td><\/tr>
Film editor<\/strong>:<\/td>Vuksan Lukovac<\/td><\/tr>
Costumes<\/strong>:<\/td>Jacques Fonteray, Divna Jovanovi\u0107<\/td><\/tr>
Music<\/strong>:<\/td>XVII and XVIII Century marches

Choice of music:<\/strong><\/td>Aleksandar Petrovi\u0107\nBranislava Petrovi\u0107 <\/td><\/tr>
Cast:<\/strong><\/td>Avtandil Makharadze, Isabelle Huppert, Richard Berry, Bernard Blier, Erland Josephson, Dragan Nikoli\u0107, Miki Manojlovi\u0107, Rade Arkovi\u0107, Petar Bo\u017eovi\u0107, Ljubomir Ciprani\u0107, Jelica Sretenovi\u0107, Dobrica Jovanovi\u0107, Jovan Burdu\u0161 Jani\u0107ijevi\u0107, Ru\u017eica Soki\u0107, Aljo\u0161a Vu\u010dkovi\u0107, Stole Aran\u0111elovi\u0107, Ivica Pajer, Mladen Krstevski, Martin Obernigg, Dragana Jugovi\u0107, Branislav Jerini\u0107, Tihomir Pleskonji\u0107, Emanuel Cen\u010di\u0107, Gojko Baleti\u0107, Lazar Barakov, Milan Mihailovi\u0107, Radko Polic, Marija \u0160ipka, Miodrag Krivokapi\u0107, Branislav Leci\u0107, Vladislava Milosavljevi\u0107<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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About the BOOK “MIGRATIONS”<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The film is inspired by Serbian novelist Milo\u0161 Crnjanski\u2019s novel by the same name, which received the award for Best Foreign novel in France in 1986. It tells the story of the lives of the mercenaries in the Baroque Wars of the 18th century when the Austro-Hungarian Empire ruled Serbia. \u201cA masterpiece of Slavic literature.\u201d<\/i> LE POINT (1986).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The novel received the prize for Best Foreign Novel in France.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCrnjanski is a Melville haunted by Dostoyevsky.  It  took  ten  years  to finish the translation of \u201cMigrations\u201d. It will take less time for it to take its place amongst the greatest works in Slavic literature.\u201d <\/em>Le Monde 8\/8\/1991 \u2013 Nicole Zand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA  masterpiece  where  the  director  of  I  Even  Met  Happy  Gypsies, Alexander Petrovic, has achieved a still invisible super production.\u201d  <\/em>Jean-Michel Frodon, Le Monde, August 8th 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plot Summary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Migrations tells the fate of mercenaries during the baroque wars of the 18th<\/sup> century during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia. Austrian empress Maria-Theresa von Habsburg wants war with the French before taking on the Prussians. She sends Serbs, who in her opinion are lesser men, to the front lines. However, they are ready to regain a modicum of independence at all costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The movie follows the parallel fates of the two Isakovitch brothers, Vouk and Archangel. The first (played by Avtandil Makharadze) leads a regiment of Serbian mercenaries to fight on the way to France. The second (Richard Berry), a handsome and shrewd merchant, claims his sister-in-law Daphina (Isabelle Huppert), whom he has cared for in the absence of his brother. Tragedy and death await\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Festivals:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Awards, honors, festivals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For  SEOBE <\/strong> – the  Serbian  version  of  MIGRATIONS  (modified  by Aleksandar Petrovic to allow distribution in Serbia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n