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SWORN VIRGIN (VERGINE GIURATE)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, GERMANY
 
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Completed - ITALIAN, ALBANIAN - Drama - 90 minutes

Log Line

SWORN VIRGIN is the story of a woman who
sacrifices her femininity for her freedom,
and years later must renounce her honour to
become a woman again.
It is a journey inside the complexity of a
woman’s world; a film about finally
breaking free from invisible prisons.

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Laura BISPURI
Writer(s) : Laura BISPURI
Cast : Alba ROHRWACHER, Flonja KODHELI, Lars EIDINGER, Luan JAHA

Producer(s) : Marta DONZELLI (VIVO FILM), Gregorio PAONESSA (VIVO FILM), Maurizio TOTTI, Alessandro USAI, Dan WECHSLER, Michael WEBER (Match Factory Productions), Viola FÜGEN (Match Factory Productions), Sabina KODRA, Robert BUDINA

Synopsis

Hana Doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being a wife and a servant, a future
imposed on women in remote village life in Albania. With the help of her uncle’s guidance,
Hana appeals to the old Kanun traditional law and takes an oath of eternal virginity for the
chance to bear a rifle and live free as men. For the villagers, Hana becomes Mark, a “sworn
virgin”.
But something restless stirs under these men’s clothes. Years later, the immense Albanian
mountains and her choice now seem like a prison. Mark decides to set out on a journey,
too long put off. He travels to Italy, crossing borders into many different worlds: Albania and
Italy, past and present, masculine and feminine.
Slowly Mark begins to experience the vertigo of discovering his body, touching other bodies.
She finds caring, loving people life had taken away, and opens up to an unexpected chance
of love, which the Kanun had denied her.
Mark rediscovers Hana, finally piecing back together the two souls that for years have lived
inside her body. She is reborn as a new, free and complete person.

Production

Country(ies) : ITALY, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, ALBANIA, KOSOVO

AUSTRIA POLYFILM VERLEI
BELGIUM Sep 30, 2015 CINEMIEN (BELGI
FRANCE PRETTY PICTURES
GERMANY DREI-FREUNDE FI
GREECE AMA FILMS
ITALY Mar 19, 2015 ISTITUTO LUCE –
NETHERLAND Oct 15, 2015 CINEMIEN (NETHE
PORTUGAL MIDAS FILMES
SWITZERLAN Jan 27, 2016 CINÉMATHÈQUE SU
USA Apr 15, 2016 DEUTCHMAN COMPA


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