Agnus Dei
WINTER FILM AWARDS 2014 WINNER - BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM, NOMINEE - BEST PICTURE, NOMINEE - BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
2012
Kosovo
110 mins
Albanian
Feature Film Competition
| Agim Sopi | |
| Agim Sopi | |
| Astrit Alihajdaraj, Zhaklina Oshtir, Dafina Berisha, Enver Petrovci, Lumnie Sopi |
A young man Peter, who is around thirties, lives a desperate life with his mother Maria and her husband Stojan in one village of Serbia. Peter is born in Kosova from a forbidden love between his mother Maria and the young Albanian man, but for this he is not aware Peter is forced by his mother and the others to go to the war. He intends to escape the war and goes to the West. He is mobilized forcefully in one paramilitary unit in Kosova’s war. In one action prepared as a revenge, he kills his father Dini whom he never had the chance to meet. Being not able to bear the arbitrary crimes, Peter, deserts from the army. He takes Dini’s daughter Maria and together they escape to the mountains. During their dangerous trip they are followed from both sides of enemies, Serbs and Albanians. Peter and Maria fell in love. They reach to come back in Peter’s home in Serbia. As soon as they returnee home, Peter realizes that he had killed his biologic father and he had fall in love with his sister. Not being able to stand this spiritual condition he commits a suicide.
About the Director
AGIM SOPI. He is born on 23.07.1956, in Prishtina / Kosovo. He attended the University of Zagreb (Croatia). He has graduated on the Academy of Arts, the branch of directing the film. He is the professor of The Film Theory in Faculty of Arts – Prishtina University.
F i l m o g r a p h y (The feature films): The man of earth (1984), Anathema (2006), Agnus Dei (2012)
Awards
2012 Prishtina International Film Festival, Prishtina – Audience Award
2013 The Prestige Film Festival , Eureka – Gold Prestige Award
2013 Cannes van d’Or, European Film Festival, London – Best Feature Film
2013 Ionian International Film Fe
