Stone Sleeper

Stone Sleeper

1969 · 11 min · ★ 9.0 · Documentary

Film inspired by the beauty of medieval tombstones, stećaks, scattered around the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Mak Dizdar’s poem about them. Film explores the distant past immortalized in inscriptions on these ancient tombstones.

Directed by Bakir Tanović · Written by Velimir Milošević

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