St. George Shoots the Dragon

2009 · Movie · 120 min. · Serbia

The movie starts with a battle against the Turks during the First Balkan War in 1912 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the crucial Battle of Cer, the first allied victory in WW1. It is largely set in and around a small village by the Sava river at Serbia's border with Austria-Hungary. The village is divided between able-bodied men that are potential army recruits and the many invalid veterans from the previous Balkan wars, and there is bitter animosity between the two groups, which don't intermingle much with each other even though they live in the same village. The central theme of the movie is a love triangle between the village gendarme George, his wife Katarina and the young war cripple Gavrilo who once had a love affair with 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 in the meantime married George , she still has affection for Gavrilo, which is a source of friction between the two.

Direction Srdjan Dragojevic

Cast Lazar Ristovski · Natasa Janjic · Milutin Milosevic · Bora Todorovic · Zoran Cvijanovic · Milena Dravic · Dragan Nikolic · Branislav Lecic · Boris Milivojevic · Mladen Andrejevic · Srdjan Timarov · Predrag Vasic · Bojan Zirovic · Milena Predic · Slobodan Ninkovic