Premeditated Murder

Story

Synopsis

Men, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogdan, a young soldier recovering from war wounds. He helps her with her grandmother's story, a tragic triangle involving her effete and well-educated husband and an uneducated major, a Chekist who has, perhaps, the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmother's friend. As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather (the Chekist or the husband), Bogdan recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls.

Director

Gorčin Stojanović

Writers

Slobodan Selenić

Language

Serbian

Country

Yugoslavia

Release date

15 November 1995

Ensemble

Cast

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  Branka Katić

  Jelena Pantić (Bulika)

• 

  Nebojša Glogovac

  Bogdan Bilogorac

• Ana Sofrenović

  Jelena Ljubisavljević

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  Dragan Mićanović

  Jovan

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  Sergej Trifunović

  Krsman Jakšić

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  Nada Blam

  Medicinska sestra

• 

  Svetozar Cvetković

  Debeli

• 

  Vladan Dujović

  Mladi Branko

• 

  Predrag Ejdus

  Doktor Cvetković

• 

  Rade Marković

  Dr. Branko Kojović

• Dejan Matić

  Vođa studentskog pokreta

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  Radoslav 'Rale' Milenković

  Muždeka