A Holy Place

A Holy Place

Sveto mesto
🎞️ Movie 90 min RS
โ˜… 7.1 /10 1990

Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story, 'Viy'. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into the dark side of eroticism. Gogol's story deals with Toma, a reluctant theology student who is forced to read the Psalms over an (un)dead girl for three nights in a row. All the while supernatural forces are trying to grab him from the Holy Circle drawn on the church floor. Kadijevic adapts and enriches 'Viy' by inventing a new backstory for the witch-girl and her father. The dead girl, Catherine (unwittingly killed in the prologue, while in the shape of a hag), is referred to as a 'saint' and her father is a harsh and unpleasant man. Kadijevic departs further from the original story, and introduces an excess of perversity and horror more reminiscent of the Anglo-American gothic than the milder Slavic attempts in a similar mode. Incest is the name of the game here.

Cast

Dragan Jovanovic
Dragan Jovanovic
Pop Toma
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Branka Pujic
Katarina Zupanski
Aleksandar Bercek
Aleksandar Bercek
Gospodar Zupanski
Mira Banjac
Mira Banjac
Gospodarica Zupanski
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Danilo Lazović
Doros
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Maja Sabljic
Lenka
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Predrag Miletic
Nikita
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Rados Bajic
Spira
Dragan Petrovic-Pele
Dragan Petrovic-Pele
Bogoslov
Dusan Janicijevic
Dusan Janicijevic
Upravnik skole
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Lazar Ristovski
Composer
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Aleksandar Petkovic
Cinematographer