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Bal-Can-Can

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Bal-Can-Can
Bulgarian poster
Directed byDarko Mitrevski
Written byDarko Mitrevski
Produced byDarko Mitrevski
Alessandro Verdecchi
Gianluca Curti
Loris Curci
StarringVlado Jovanovski
Adolfo Margiotta
Zvezda Angelovska
CinematographySuki Medencevic
Edited byGiacobbe Gamberini
Music byKiril Džajkovski
Release date
  • 2 February 2005 (2005-02-02)
Running time
89 minutes
CountriesMacedonia
Italy
LanguagesMacedonian
Italian
Serbian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Bosnian
Albanian
English
Russian
Budget1,300,000 €

Bal-Can-Can (Macedonian: Бал-Кан-Кан, transliterated Bal-Kan-Kan) is a 2005 Macedonian-Italian joint production film about a deserter who travels throughout the Balkans as a political immigrant in search of his dead mother-in-law who is wrapped in a carpet.

Cast

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Actor Role
Vlado Jovanovski Trendafil Karanfilov
Adolfo Margiotta Santino Genovese
Zvezda Angelovska Ruža Karanfilova
Branko Đurić Šefket Ramadani
Seka Sablić Zumbula
Toni Mihajlovski Džango
Miodrag Krivokapić Veselin Kabadajić
Nikola Kojo Osman Rizvanbegović
Branko Ognjanovski Serafim Karanfilov
Vasko Todorov Vitomir

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Release

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Reception

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The film was mostly praised by critics with some reviewers, such as Dennis Harvey of Variety, commenting on the film; "Writer-helmer Darko Mitrevski keeps pushing the envelope... The cynical, hallucinatory, modern Pilgrim's Progress is a trip, with memorably out-there sequences sure to build a cult rep among adventuresome cineastes."

Box office

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The film was the highest-grossing film to date in the Republic of Macedonia. It was also released in Russia, United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Cesso.

Awards and nominations

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Event Award Winner/Nominee Result
27th Moscow International Film Festival[1] Special Mention of the Film Critic's Guild of Russia Darko Mitrevski Won
Golden St. George Darko Mitrevski Nominated
Motovun Film Festival Propeller of Motovun - From A to A Award, Best Film In the South-East European Region Darko Mitrevski Won

References

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  1. ^ "27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2013-04-09.
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