Menagerie

Menagerie

105 mins | Drama, Crime, Romance, TV Movie | June 17, 2012

"Menagerie" is a drama which takes place in the early 1990s, in one Serbian village near the coast of river Drina. It is a story about moral and historical breakdown of one country, located at a milieu separated from urban life, in an area that lives on specific rules and relationships between people. Srna, daughter of Strain, the most powerful man in the village, is promised for a wife to Jovan. Jovan is the son of a local forester Tadija, who, in return, allows Strain poaching and illegal cutting of village wood. Although there is attraction between Srna and Jovan, they still don't want to be married by the wish of their fathers. Suddenly Petar, the ex-forester who was seven years in jail for killing Strain's older son, returns to the village. His return changes lives of all characters in this story indicating the uncertain end of it.

Menagerie

105 mins | Drama, Crime, Romance, TV Movie | June 17, 2012

Menagerie
"Menagerie" is a drama which takes place in the early 1990s, in one Serbian village near the coast of river Drina. It is a story about moral and historical breakdown of one country, located at a milieu separated from urban life, in an area that lives on specific rules and relationships between people. Srna, daughter of Strain, the most powerful man in the village, is promised for a wife to Jovan. Jovan is the son of a local forester Tadija, who, in return, allows Strain poaching and illegal cutting of village wood. Although there is attraction between Srna and Jovan, they still don't want to be married by the wish of their fathers. Suddenly Petar, the ex-forester who was seven years in jail for killing Strain's older son, returns to the village. His return changes lives of all characters in this story indicating the uncertain end of it.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Radiotelevizija Beograd, RTS
Original title Zverinjak
Directors Marko Novaković
Writers Marko Novaković, Dušan Spasojević

Cast

Tanasije Uzunović

as Tadija

Mladen Sovilj

as Jovan

Branka Šelić

as Marija

Ivan Đorđević

as Vidan

Igor Damnjanović

as Milisav Lukić

Aleksandar Đurica

as Sreten Lukić

Nada Šargin

as Anđa

Frank M. Ahearn

as Milo

Dragan Đorđević

as Oficir

Hadži Aleksandar Đurović

as Grobarev sin

Igor Knific

as Srdan

Marina Škundrić

as Igumanija