Title: A Holy Place AKA: Year: 1990 Original title: Sveto mesto Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes Country: Yugoslavia Language: Serbian Subtitles: English | Portuguese-BR | Russian | Spanish (.srt) Genre: Drama | Horror
Directors: Djordje Kadijevic
Cast:
Dragan Jovanovic ... Pop Toma Branka Pujic ... Katarina Aleksandar Bercek ... Gospodar Zupanski Mira Banjac ... Gospodarica Zupanski Danilo Lazovic ... Doros Maja Sabljic ... Lenka Predrag Miletic ... Nikita Rados Bajic ... Spira Dragan Petrovic ... Bogoslov Dusan Janicijevic ... Upravnik skole Mihajlo-Bata Paskaljevic Igor Pervic ... Marko Bogoslov Dragan Zaric ... Slikar Slavoljub Plavsic-Zvonce Dragomir Stanojevic-Bata Kameni
Plot / Synopsis
Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story, 'Viy'. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into the dark side of eroticism. Gogol's story deals with Toma, a reluctant theology student who is forced to read the Psalms over an (un)dead girl for three nights in a row. All the while supernatural forces are trying to grab him from the Holy Circle drawn on the church floor. Kadijevic adapts and enriches 'Viy' by inventing a new backstory for the witch-girl and her father. The dead girl, Catherine (unwittingly killed in the prologue, while in the shape of a hag), is referred to as a 'saint' and her father is a harsh and unpleasant man. Kadijevic departs further from the original story, and introduces an excess of perversity and horror more reminiscent of the Anglo-American gothic than the milder Slavic attempts in a similar mode... Written by Dejan Ognjanovic
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It’s just an utterly different interpretation of Вий [Viy] by Nikolai Gogol. A stress is made on the suppressed sexual instincts of the characters and mysticism here is united with Freudian teachings.
A Holy Place (1990) Sveto mesto
