St. George Shoots the Dragon
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| Directed by | Srđan Dragojević |
| Produced by |
Dušan Kovačević Lazar Ristovski Srđan Dragojević Milko Josifov Biljana Prvanović |
| Written by | Dušan Kovačević |
| Starring |
Lazar Ristovski Milutin Milošević Nataša Janjić Bora Todorović Dragan Nikolić Milena Dravić Zoran Cvijanović Branislav Lečić |
| Music by | Aleksandar Ranđelović |
| Cinematography | Dušan Joksimović |
| Distributed by | Sinears (Serbia) Wild Bunch (globally) |
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Release date
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March 11, 2009 (Serbia) |
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Running time
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150 min. |
| Language | Serbian |
| Budget | €5 million (estimated) |
| Box office | $325,265 (Serbia) |
St. George Shoots the Dragon (Serbian: Свети Георгије убива аждаху, Sveti Georgije ubiva aždahu) is a Serbian World War I drama directed by Srđan Dragojević and written by Dušan Kovačević. The movie premiered on March 11, 2009.
With a budget of around €5 million, it was one of the most expensive Serbian movie productions to date. Some of the funds have been donated by the governments of Serbia (€1.55 million) and Republika Srpska (€750,000) who deemed the movie to be of national importance.
Kovačević's script is based on his 1984 theater play that was staged to great success in Belgrade's Atelje 212 and Novi Sad's Serbian National Theatre.
The movie starts with the Kingdom of Serbia, as part of the Balkan League, battling the remaining Turkish occupiers during the First Balkan War in 1912 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914; namely, the crucial Battle of Cer, first allied victory in World War I. It is largely set in and around a small village by the Sava river near Serbia's border with hostile Austria-Hungary.
The village is deeply divided between able-bodied men that are potential army recruits and the many disabled veterans from the previous Balkan Wars; there is bitter animosity between the two groups, who do not intermingle much with each other even though they live in the same village.
The movie's central theme is a love triangle between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo who was previously engaged to Katarina before he went to war and lost his arm in battle, and with the arm partly also his lust for life. Even though Katarina married Đorđe in the meantime, she still has affection for Gavrilo, which is a source of friction between the two.
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