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''Promise Me This'' ( sr, Завет / ''Zavet'') is a film written and directed by the award-winning
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. The film screened on May 26, 2007 at the 60th annual Cannes Film Festival.Two Serbian films compete at Cannes festival
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. May 24, 2007. The international title of the film is ''Promise Me This'', but the film is known as ''Zavet'' (, "the testament") in
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Plot

Set in Zlatibor District, an old man named Živojin Marković ( Aleksandar Berček), living in a remote village prays for his grandson Tsane ( Uroš Milovanović) to go to the city ( Užice), sell his cow and bring back a wife. In the city he is supposed to meet up with his grandfather's stepbrother, but this man is dead. Instead, he meets this man's two grandsons, two good-natured brothers who are nevertheless small-time criminals and experts in demolition. Tsane soon clicks with these men, and also falls in love with a schoolgirl (Jasna, played by Marija Petronijević), who he wants to marry as part of his testament with his grandfather (the other parts of the testament are to bring back an icon and a souvenir, which he should buy with the money he gets from selling the cow). He gets involved in this girl's family affairs, rescuing both her and her mother from prostitution and gangsters headed by a man called Bajo (
Miki Manojlović Predrag "Miki" Manojlović ( sr-cyr, Предраг "Мики" Манојловић; born 5 April 1950) is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of former Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he su ...
), and the new group of people return to the small village in time to celebrate Živojin's wedding to his neighbor, despite the gangsters' best efforts to stop the celebration, which results in a double wedding.


Cast

* Uroš Milovanović * Marija Petronijević *
Miki Manojlović Predrag "Miki" Manojlović ( sr-cyr, Предраг "Мики" Манојловић; born 5 April 1950) is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of former Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he su ...
* Aleksandar Berček *
Ljiljana Blagojević Ljiljana Blagojević ( sr-cyr, Љиљана Благојевић; born 5 November 1955 in Belgrade, Serbia PR Serbia in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia]) is a Serbian theater, film, and television actress. She is married to ...
* Stribor Kusturica


References


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