Zona Zamfirova
Zona Zamfirova (Serbian Cyrillic: Зона Замфирова) is a 2002 comedy-drama film directed by Zdravko Šotra. It is based on the 1906 book by Serbian author Stevan Sremac. The film contains the local vernacular of the Bulgarian dialect spoken in the region of Niš.
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Directed by | Zdravko Šotra |
Written by | Stevan Sremac (novel) Zdravko Šotra (adaptation) |
Starring | Vojin Ćetković Katarina Radivojević Dragan Nikolić Milena Dravić Radmila Živković |
Music by | Bilja Krstić |
Release date | 2002 |
Running time | 104 min |
Country | FR Yugoslavia |
Language | Bulgarian (Torlakian dialect) |
The film is the most watched Serbian movie ever, having been seen by a total of 1.2 million people in theater release in Serbia, and 1.6 million when Montenegro and Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina are counted (the only other territories where it had a general theater release).
Filmed in a rare 1850's house built with permission of the9 then Turkish occupiers, in Pirot, some 50 miles S.E. of Nis. The house is now the museum of Pirot and area.
Plot
Zona Zamfirova is set in the Balkan city of Niš in the 19th century. The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova (Katarina Radivojević), a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane (Vojin Ćetković), an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a rich man to marry a craftsman, the two are at first divided, with the possibility of Zona marrying Manulać, who came from a wealthy family. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to keep Zona for himself.
Cast
- Vojin Ćetković - Mane Kujundzija
- Katarina Radivojević - Zona Zamfirova
- Dragan Nikolić - Hadzi Zamfir
- Milena Dravić - Tasana
- Radmila Živković - Doka
- Nikola Đuričko - Perica
- Sloboda Mićalović - Vaska
- Nebojša Ilić - Manulac
- Branimir Brstina - Jordan
- Danica Maksimović - Persa
- Ružica Sokić - Taska
- Jelica Sretenovic - Kaliopa
- Svetlana Bojković - Jevda
- Ana Franić - Izmecarka Vasilija