It Rains in My Village

It Rains in My Village (Serbo-Croatian: Biće skoro propast sveta, lit. 'The End of the World Is Nigh') is a 1968 Yugoslav film by Serbian director Aleksandar Petrović, partly inspired by the novel Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

It Rains in My Village Biće skoro propast sveta
Directed by	Aleksandar Petrović
Written by	Aleksandar Petrović
Starring	Annie Girardot Ivan Palúch Gidra Bojanić Eva Ras Mija Aleksić
Cinematography	Alain Levent Djordje Nikolić
Edited by	Katarina Stojanović
Music by	Aleksandar Petrović and Vojislav Kostić
Release date	1968 (1968)
Running time	84 minutes
Language	Serbo-Croatian Official Website

Plot

A mentally challenged girl is defended by a young man who takes care of pigs. He gets into a fight with the local saloon keeper, prompting the man to get the boy drunk and bribe a priest into marrying the boy to the unfortunate girl. A female teacher arrives in town to teach women how to paint. She uses the young boy as a model and then as a toy for her pleasure. The teacher subsequently takes another lover and abandons the young man, claiming that she was unaware of his marriage. The young boy eventually kills his wife, but his father takes the blame for the crime and confesses his sins before he dies in prison. As a conclusion to this sad movie, the townspeople punish the young boy for what he has done.

Themes

Typical "film noire"^[1] plot of the film is not the main message of the film. The film is about fighting good against evil, and how criticism of government by Petrović reached another level as battle between good, in the character of mentally challenged Goca, and evil, in most of the characters in the film. Other themes that run through the movie are: selfishness, prudence, jealousy, rejection of right values, and the decline of society. The end of the movie shows how easy evil can be spread and infect people who are in touch with it.

Cast

• Annie Girardot - Reza
• Ivan Palúch - Trisa
• Eva Ras - Goca
• Mija Aleksić - Joska
• Dragomir "Gidra" Bojanić - Pilot
• Bata Živojinović - Policeman

Awards

The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] The film was also selected as the Yugoslavian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 41st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[3]

See also

• List of Yugoslavian films
• List of submissions to the 41st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

1. See, e.g., Biesen (2005), p. 1; Hirsch (2001), p. 9; Lyons (2001), p. 2; Silver and Ward (1992), p. 1; Schatz (1981), p. 112. Outside the field of noir scholarship, "dark film" is also offered on occasion; see, e.g., Block, Bruce A., The Visual Story: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV, and New Media (2001), p. 94; Klarer, Mario, An Introduction to Literary Studies (1999), p. 59.
2. "Festival de Cannes: It Rains in My Village". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
3. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

External links

• Bice skoro propast sveta at IMDb