Promised Land

Promised Land

1986 · 121 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, Crime

Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.

Directed by Veljko Bulajić · Written by Ivo Brešan

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Velimir Živojinović Markan, predsjednik zadruge
Dara Džokić Stana, Milišina žena
Vanja Drach Sudac
Mirjana Karanović Marta
Vjenceslav Kapural Miliša Matić
Olivera Marković Daktilografkinja
Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić Zec
Vanja Matujec Nada, Milišina ćerka
Igor Mešin Niko, Markanov sin
Semka Sokolović-Bertok Baba Manda
Ilija Ivezić Kolonist
Krunoslav Šarić Načelnik

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