Bal-Can-Can

Bal-Can-Can
Bulgarian poster
Directed byDarko Mitrevski
Written byDarko Mitrevski
Produced byDarko Mitrevski
Alessandro Verdecchi
Gianluca Curti
Loris Curci
StarringVlado Jovanovski
Adolfo Margiotta
Zvezda Angelovska
CinematographySuki Medencevic
Edited byGiacobbe Gamberini
Music byKiril Džajkovski
Release date
  • 2 February 2005 (2005-02-02)
Running time
89 minutes
CountriesMacedonia
Italy
LanguagesMacedonian
Italian
Serbian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Bosnian
Albanian
English
Russian
Budget1,300,000 €

Bal-Can-Can (Macedonian: Бал-Кан-Кан, transliterated Bal-Kan-Kan) is a 2005 Macedonian-Italian joint production film about a deserter who travels throughout the Balkans as a political immigrant in search of his dead mother-in-law who is wrapped in a carpet.

Cast

Actor Role
Vlado Jovanovski Trendafil Karanfilov[1]
Adolfo Margiotta Santino Genovese[1]
Zvezda Angelovska Ruža Karanfilova
Branko Đurić Šefket Ramadani
Seka Sablić Zumbula
Toni Mihajlovski Džango
Miodrag Krivokapić Veselin Kabadajić
Nikola Kojo Osman Rizvanbegović
Branko Ognjanovski Serafim Karanfilov
Vasko Todorov Vitomir

Production

The film was a co-production of Macedonia (now North Macedonia), Italy, Serbia and Montenegro and Britain. The executive producer of the film was Loris Curci. The screenplay was written by Darko Mitrevski, who also directed the film. The director of cinemaphotography was Suki Medencević and the film was edited by Giacobbe Gamberini.[1] Auditions for extras were held in July 2003 in Skopje. The filming happened in September and October.[2]

Release

The film was released in 2005.[3]

Reception

Dennis Harvey of Variety, commenting on the film, wrote: "Writer-helmer Darko Mitrevski keeps pushing the envelope... The cynical, hallucinatory, modern Pilgrim's Progress is a trip, with memorably out-there sequences sure to build a cult rep among adventuresome cineastes."[4]

Box office

The film has been the highest-grossing film in North Macedonia, with over 100,000 tickets sold.[5] It was also released in Russia, United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Awards and nominations

Event Award Winner/Nominee Result
27th Moscow International Film Festival[6] Special Mention of the Film Critic's Guild of Russia Darko Mitrevski Won
Golden St. George Darko Mitrevski Nominated
Motovun Film Festival Propeller of Motovun - From A to A Award, Best Film In the South-East European Region Darko Mitrevski Won

References

  1. ^ a b c "Со иронија за драматичните состојби". Time (Dnevnik) (in Macedonian). 2 October 2003.
  2. ^ "Аудиции за статисти во филмот "Бал-кан-кан"". Time (Dnevnik) (in Macedonian). 4 July 2003.
  3. ^ Renate Hansen-Kokorus (2017). "The Image of the Stranger in Post-Yugoslav Films". Contemporary Southeastern Europe (2): 151.
  4. ^ "Bal-Can-Can". Variety. 3 April 2006.
  5. ^ ""Honeyland" and the relaunch of Macedonian cinema". Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa. 7 February 2020.
  6. ^ "27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2013-04-09.