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A Ballad

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A Ballad follows 30-year-old unambitious Meri, a housewife and a mother of an 8-year-old girl Mila, whose 14-years-older husband Hasan throws her out of their home in a fit of jealous rage. After returning to her parents' home without her daughter, whom Hasan decided to keep, Meri realizes she is trapped in a wicked circle of provincial laws and rules, and her family's needs and ambitions. Trying to find herself, Meri auditions for a film that is to be shot in the neighborhood.

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Guy Lodge Variety Begić’s ambitious, jaggedly structured film brashly updates its moral of female sorrow and subservience to far more modern ideals of feminist resolve and rejection of the patriarchy. Aug 18, 2022 Full Review Neil Young Screen International This empathetic character study seeks to breathe life into a soap-opera-like storyline with stylistic flights of fancy — most of which land awkwardly. Aug 18, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews
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Aida Begić

Director

Marija Pikic

Actor

Jasna Zalica

Actor

Slaven Vidak

Actor

Lana Stanišić

Actor

Milan Tocinovski

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Synopsis A Ballad follows 30-year-old unambitious Meri, a housewife and a mother of an 8-year-old girl Mila, whose 14-years-older husband Hasan throws her out of their home in a fit of jealous rage. After returning to her parents' home without her daughter, whom Hasan decided to keep, Meri realizes she is trapped in a wicked circle of provincial laws and rules, and her family's needs and ambitions. Trying to find herself, Meri auditions for a film that is to be shot in the neighborhood.
Director
Aida Begić
Producer
Adis Dapo, Aida Begić, Erol Zubčević
Screenwriter
Aida Begić
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Bosnian
Runtime
2h 0m