Completed - ITALIAN, ALBANIAN - Drama - 90 minutes
SWORN VIRGIN is the story of a woman whosacrifices her femininity for her freedom,and years later must renounce her honour tobecome a woman again.It is a journey inside the complexity of awoman’s world; a film about finallybreaking 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
Hana Doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being a wife and a servant, a futureimposed 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 thechance to bear a rifle and live free as men. For the villagers, Hana becomes Mark, a “swornvirgin”.But something restless stirs under these men’s clothes. Years later, the immense Albanianmountains 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 andItaly, 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 chanceof love, which the Kanun had denied her.Mark rediscovers Hana, finally piecing back together the two souls that for years have livedinside her body. She is reborn as a new, free and complete person.
Country(ies) : ITALY, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, ALBANIA, KOSOVO
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