The Fourteenth Day

 

FILM CLASSIC

The Fourteenth Day

DIRECTOR: Zdravko Velimirović

CANNES CLASSICS

COUNTRY: Montenegro, Serbia

YEAR / DURATION: 1960 • 98’

GENRE: drama, crime

Info

  • SCREENPLAY: Borisav Pekić, Zdravko Velimirović
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vladeta Lukić
  • EDITOR: Katarina Stojanović
  • ORIGINALNA GLAZBA:
  • ACTORS: Nikola Popović, Slobodan Perović, Karlo Bulić, Dšsan Janičijević, Mira Stupica
  • COMPANY: Lovčen Film
  • DISTRIBUTION / SALES AGENT : Montenegrin Cinematheque
  • FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: Nominated for Palme d’Or at Cannes, 1961

Trailer

Synopsis

Four prisoners are given fourteen days of freedom for good conduct. The film follows their adventures during the two weeks of freedom as they try to adapt to life on the outside. As the day of their return to prison approaches, the situations in their lives get more complicated.

About the director

Zdravko Velimirović (Cetinje, 1930 – Belgrade, 2005), Yugoslav director and screenwriter, university professor and member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. His fiction and documentary films received acclaim from both critics and audiences alike. The Fourteenth Day is his first feature film, and was screened as part of the main competition at Cannes, where it saw great success with both the jury and the audience.  The screenplay was written by Boris Pekić, Velimirović’s close friend, who was a former prisoner himself. Select filmography: The Dervish and Death (1974), The Peaks of Zelengora (1976), The Time of Leopards (1985).

Screening

  • Valli Cinema – 16.07.2022

    19:15

FREE ENTRANCE

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