Completed - SERBIAN - Drama - 85 minutes
Year of production : 1967 Director(s) : Kokan RAKONJAC Writer(s) : Zika LAZIC Cast : Ljuba TADIC, Jelena ZIGON, Severin BIJELIC, Milan SRDOC, Svetolik NIKACEVIC, Sima JANICIJEVIC
For eight years the prisoner listens to the story of the woman he has never seen. He imagines her, lives with her in his dreams, but the desire to see and touch her is stronger than any imagination. He decides to escape. As if fate complies him, Zivota commits a new murder, after leaving Nada. Every step towards his fatal first love leads to a murder. Zivota's strong and strange love is penetrated by the constant fear that he will loose the woman who is his only reason for living. He therefore continues to kill, to kill everybody who wants to posses Nada, or those who possessed her before him. The village people are beside themselves with fear, for the murder leaves no trace. Zivota decides to escape with Nada, away from people, to be with her, according to the eternal law as "Man and Woman". A conflict arises. Nada finally learns that the secret murder is the escaped prisoner, Zivota to whom she offered refuge and love. She decides to betray him. The fight between the peasants, armed with pitchforks and scythes, and the betrayal, Zivota throws away the gun and escapes. The pursuers find him hidden in the haystack and cruelly lynch him.
Country(ies) : SERBIA