| Description |
1 online resource (55 min.) |
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Ethnographic video online ; volume 1 |
| Summary |
This raucous yet poignant documentary takes us into the lives of three Serbian brothers who are without wives in a remote mountain village of eight inhabitants, all of them single men. Their broken-down house with an earthen floor has no running water, a rickety outhouse, a living room whose walls are covered with Playboy-type pictures, and one bedroom shared by all three men. While Zoran, the eldest, dreams of marrying, he fails to convince a Serbian woman to share this primitive lifestyle. In nearby Albania there is a surplus of women, and Zoran is willing to pay a matchmaker for the opportunity to meet a group of unattached Albanian women. But at the rendezvous dinner it is obvious that these ladies are not the marrying kind. They certainly would not relish being partnered with a man who may really be looking for a housekeeper. And a further problem is that the scars left by the war in Kosovo makes it difficult for his youngest brother to consider welcoming a former "enemy." Zoran has the opportunity to extend the olive branch to the opponent. Will Zoran's attempt be fruitful? Can he fulfill his dream and renew hope in his village? Filmed with an ironic sense of humor, Village Without Women is a must-see for Anthropology, Gender Studies and Eastern Europe Studies |
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"Village without women is a feature length documentary, which follows the lives of the three Jankovic brothers from Serbia. The film unwinds their chaotical attempts to seduce Albanian women, in a last-ditch effort to save their remote, dilapidated village. The brothers have a rooster, which is also unmarried. Only when the brothers find their brides, will they also find one for the rooster"--Container |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 14, 2013) |
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Originally produced in Serbia as a motion picture and released in 2010 |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Pablo Ferro Žlvanović ; editor, Ksenija Petričić ; composer, Dejan Pejović |
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Director/writer, Srdjan Šarenac; production companies, Les Films du Balibari, Mainframe Productions |
| Notes |
Serbian and Albanian with optional captions in English |
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Single men -- Serbia
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Villages -- Serbia
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Farmers -- Serbia
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Man-woman relationships -- Serbia
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Farmers.
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Man-woman relationships.
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Rural conditions.
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Single men.
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Villages.
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Serbia -- Rural conditions
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| Subject |
Serbia.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Šarenac, Srđan.
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You, Estelle Robin.
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Filmakers Library, inc.
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YLE Co-productions
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Télénantes (Firm)
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Planète (Firm)
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TVOntario.
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Films du balibari (Firm)
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Mainframe Productions.
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