Banovic Strahinja (1983)

Director:

Vatroslav Mimica

Writers:

Aleksandar Petrovic (screenplay)
Vatroslav Mimica (screenplay)

Release Date:

30 March 1983 (West Germany)

Genre:

Action | Biography | Drama | History | Romance

Plot:

In late 14th century medieval Serbia becomes the target of Ottoman invaders. One of their renegade gangs...

Plot Keywords:

Serbia | Posse | The Turks | Gang | Forgiveness

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Franco Nero	...	Banovic Strahinja
Dragan Nikolic	...	Vlah-alija (as Dragan Nicolic)
Sanja Vejnovic	...	Andja
Rade Serbedzija	...	Abdulah (as Rade Serbadzia)
Nikola-Kole Angelovski	...	Timotije, luda (as Kole Angelovski)
Gert Fröbe	...	Jug Bogdan
Gisela Fackeldey
Petra Peters
Nina Palmers-Karin		(as Nina Palmers)
Stole Arandjelovic	...	Pop Gradislav (as Stole Arandelovic)
Charles Millot
Neda Spasojevic	...	Ropkinja / slave woman
Nadezda Vukicevic		(as Nadjezda Vukicevic)
Bozidar Pavicevic-Longa	...	Rob / slave (as Bozidar Pavicevic)
Janez Vrhovec

Also Known As:

Der Falke (West Germany)
The Falcon (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

105 min | West Germany:102 min

Country:

Yugoslavia | West Germany

Language:

Serbo-Croatian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

County of Karlovac, Croatia

Company:

Avala Film

Movie Connections:

References The Searchers (1956)

Worth a Look

The one for connoisseurs.

The film is based on an old Serbian epic song. It is one of not too many Yugoslav films with medieval 14 century theme, so only for that, for me, it would be worth a look.

Dragan Nikolic is brilliant as Vlah Alija, with no other than Franco Nero as Banovic Strahinja. Rade Serbedzija is exceptional as a crazy dervish and the scene where he is tortured on the pike is more than powerful.

Minor curiosity in this day and age is that the film with such a typical Serbian folk story was directed by a Croat.