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Gospa (1994)
''Gospa'' is a 1995 religious drama starring Martin Sheen and Morgan Fairchild about pilgrimages to a small village in Herzegovina where six school children say the Virgin Mary ("Our Lady", hr, Gospa) appeared in 1981 (see Our Lady of Međugorje). The movie highlights alleged persecutions of Catholic Croats, particularly of the clergy, by the communist authorities of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Martin Sheen plays Franciscan priest Jozo Zovko, who was tried for sedition by the Yugoslav government. Cast *Martin Sheen as Father Jozo Zovko *Michael York as Milan Vuković *Morgan Fairchild as Sister Fabijana Zovko * Paul Guilfoyle as Miodrag Dobrović *Ray Girardin as father Zrinko Čuvalo *Frank Finlay as Monsignor * Tony Zazula as prosecutor Govanović * William Hootkins as judge Marulić * Angelo Santiago as Vlado Palić * Mustafa Nadarević as major Stović * Slavko Brankov as 2nd Jail Guard * Daniela Čolić-Prizmić as French Journalist (as Nel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Aralica
__NOTOC__ Ivan Aralica (born 10 September 1930) is a Croatian novelist and essayist. Born in Promina near Knin, and having finished pedagogical school and Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zadar, Aralica had worked since 1953 as a high school teacher in the backwater villages of the rural hinterland of northern and central Dalmatia. After a period of Communist infatuation (which resulted in a few weak novellas that can be labeled as socialist realism period pieces), Aralica was swept into the vortex of turbulent events known as the Croatian spring (1971). During this tumultuous era he allied with those who advocated greater Croatian autonomy and freedom for Croatian people in Communist Yugoslavia. The crackdown on the Croatian national movement and subsequent professional and social degradation resulted in Aralica’s return to his Christian and Catholic roots, abandonment of doctrinaire propagandist literature and formation of his own literary credo. Among world authors, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |