Stojan Stojčić

Impure Blood (Serbian: Нечиста крв, Nečista krv) is a 1996 film adaptation of the Impure Blood novel written by Borisav Stanković. It is concerned with themes of Serbian south, in the reforming in late 19th century.

A war drama told through the memories of Sofija (Sofka’s daughter) – Bojana Peković and the daily stories she hears from her grandfather or father Marko – Rade Šerbedžija. The fate of the family sends Sofija to the Komitas in order to avenge her ancestors. Sofija's weapons are a pistol, a rifle, a saber, but also a fiddle.

A story of spiritual resistance to physical political persecution. Set after the Russian revolution, when communist zealots hunt down everyone who will not forswear their Orthodox Catholic ways.

A story that follows three generations of a rich Serbian Christian family in the 19th century in the north of the then Ottoman Empire in the city of Vranje, who are fighting for survival through various moral crises, facing decline. Forbidden love, intrigue, murder, arranged marriages, revenge, friendship and enmity between Serbs, Albanians and Turks and the endangered position of women at that time