9/10
First Serbian movie
12 February 2011
Movie is about 13 min. long w/o non original titles & more likely it was practice for more ambitious movie about Duke Karadzordze made few weeks or months later.. The movie is based on real historical events in Belgrade in the summer of 1456. just after important Christian victory over Muslims. BTW, that event some says use Tolkin in his sagas as stage for siege of Minas Tirith. But after battle, due to many corpses, plague broke that killed many Christian leaders. Struggle for succession between Hungarian nobility begins and that's where this film starts. Movie is worthy cos of scenography and fact that it was filmed on same location where real events took place (Belgrade fortress), and I don't know but that easily can be first or among the first historical movies that exploit such feature. Since this is first Serbian and generally first Balkan feature film, it scores several first in local filmography. It is made from 14 all different scenes, 2 of them have double exposure which was favorite SFX in that era for ghost effects. It also have first panning, goof, comical and even horror scene (killing of Vladislav Hunyadi). I recommend it to any movie fan, specially those inclined to historical movies. Far before Petersen Troy, Braveheart, Ben Hur, Spartacus, Cleopatra etc, this is how that genre begins.
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