Time of Miracles

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Time of Miracles
Directed by Goran Paskaljević
Written byGoran Paskaljević
Borislav Pekić
Starring Miki Manojlović
Dragan Maksimović
Danilo Stojković
Svetozar Cvetković
Mirjana Karanović
Mirjana Joković
CinematographyRadoslav Vladić
Edited byOlga Jovanović
Olga Skrigin
Music by Zoran Simjanović
Production
companies
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryYugoslavia
LanguageSerbo-Croatian

Time of Miracles (Serbo-Croatian : Vreme čuda) is a 1989 Yugoslav drama film directed by Goran Paskaljević. [1] The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. [2]

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The village of Bethany (modeled after the village that, according to the Bible, is located near Jerusalem where Lazarus was resurrected), September 1945, World War II has just ended. The new communist revolutionary government begins the fight against folk customs and beliefs and initiates the process of "exorcising God". The village school burned down in a fire, and the authorities break into the village church and drive out the priest. A revolutionary climbs the church and hangs the Communist flag on the cross . Other revolutionaries painted frescoes on the walls. However, after every attempt to whitewash the walls, the frescoes miraculously return. Communists perceive this act as a counter-revolutionary act. Soon the teacher dies and a stranger appears in the village.

A young man whom no one knows touches the hands of the deceased teacher on the scaffold, and raises him from the dead. The people begin to believe that Christ has arrived in their village and is performing miracles, while the communists declare the raising from the dead a counter-revolutionary act. The problem of the communists is now the teacher who rose from the dead, because the revolution does not believe in miracles. There is a conflict between two dogmas: the primitive interpretation of Communism and Christianity.

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References

  1. "Time of Miracles". Time Out. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  2. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences