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The Perfect Circle

Original title: Savrseni krug
  • 1997
  • 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
2.5K
YOUR RATING
The Perfect Circle (1997)
DramaWar

An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers... Read allAn alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in sear... Read allAn alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the h... Read all

  • Director
    • Ademir Kenovic
  • Writers
    • Ademir Kenovic
    • Abdulah Sidran
    • Pjer Zalica
  • Stars
    • Mustafa Nadarevic
    • Almedin Leleta
    • Almir Podgorica
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    2.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ademir Kenovic
    • Writers
      • Ademir Kenovic
      • Abdulah Sidran
      • Pjer Zalica
    • Stars
      • Mustafa Nadarevic
      • Almedin Leleta
      • Almir Podgorica
    • 12User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Mustafa Nadarevic
    Mustafa Nadarevic
    • Hamza
    Almedin Leleta
    • Adis
    Almir Podgorica
    • Kerim
    Josip Pejakovic
    • Marko
    Jasna Diklic
    • Gospodja
    Mirela Lambic
    • Miranda
    Ljubica Lohajner-znidaric
    • Stara zena
    Amina Begovic
    • Gordana
    Sultana Omerbegovic
    • Ivana
    Zaim Muzaferija
    • Asaf
    Mira Avram
    • Hamzina majka
    Bozidar Bunjevac
    • Grobar
    Vlado Jokanovic
    • Samoubojica
    Vedrana Bozinovic
    Vedrana Bozinovic
    • Komsinica
    Dragan Marinkovic
    • Komsija
    Elvira Delalic
      Ines Fancovic
      • Baka
      Sabina Bambur
      • Director
        • Ademir Kenovic
      • Writers
        • Ademir Kenovic
        • Abdulah Sidran
        • Pjer Zalica
      • All cast & crew
      • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

      User reviews12

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      10ahmetbeg

      It's All Too Real

      It's a slightly dramatized documentary, really. It's one of the tens of thousands of similar stories occured during '92-'96.

      Shot right after the end of the longest siege on a capital in modern war history, which has become one of the best-known symbols of a large scale ethnic cleansing campaign, it doesn't need any decorations. What you see is what those people suffered through for 4 years, while the "big powers" of Europe, the ultimate defenders of human rights, have just watched the atrocity taking place right in the heart of the continent.
      10DukeEman

      Strong... Effective... It had me in tears.

      War torn Sarajevo and life turns into a game as you play dodge the bullets. Hamza, (Mustafa Nadarevic), is a poet with visions of his own death by hanging, a way to escape the misery that surrounds him. Until one night he stumbles upon two orphans who put a hold on his misery as he attempts to get them out of hell. War is ugly but those who suffer are the ones with a will for peace and harmony.
      10davidarnold337

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      Saw the movie in Sarajevo when it first came out. Bosnian Language. Did not have to know the language to totally enjoy this movie. The movie is a sad commentary of what occurred in Bosnia during the previous Bush administration. Very realistic, acting superb.
      xe1bef

      Journalist from 1965, in Colima, Mexico

      Using a script written to the alimón by the poet Abdulah Sidran (When Papá goes on a trip, do you Remind Dolly Bell?) and does Kenovic, bring near us with a real lyricism and constuido evidencing the contrast with the crudeness of the reality, about the useless war in the old Yugoslavia.

      Ademir Kenovic (MGM Sarajevo: Covjek, Bog, Monstrum -1994 - and Kuduz -89 -), its realizador, puts us of in front of the barbarism, in a sober narrative tone where you/they are not allowed to blackmail for anything, not even for the presence of two children amid a bloody war, to only transform it in a combination of fondness with the cruel reality that one lives, without easy tears neither excesses of blood, or constant approaches to wounded or mutilated members. About the useless war in the former Yugoslavia, they also exist Territory Comanche" (that was projected in Rooms Jorge Stahl the last year) and that it is in reportorial tone, The Look of Ulises and Undeground", but this of Kenovic is something special. It is the history of a poet, Hamza (Mustafa Nadarevic) who after having him lost everything -family and properties - it is given to the task of protecting two orphan children, Adis (Almedin Leleta) and the deaf-mute Kerim (Almir Podgorica) as well as to a wounded dog, and of looking for the aunt that is the only survivor of their family that could take care of them, but to look for it they have to pass big risks. Kenovic, besides showing with sobriety the drama, incrusts the black humor with Hamza who when losing everything, he/she hallucinates to see its wife and daughter (Jasna Diklic and Look at it Lambic) like part of that fear to what faces and of the one that wanted to escape it hallucinates to be commit suicide* being hung of a rope. In fact with their suicide in that way, it is like it begins the tape. It also highlights when showing us how in spite of the misfortune of the war that has hardly left anything in foot, some neighbors defend a tree so that it is not demolished, or the firemen that don't stop to fulfill their duty. The tape is valuable not only for its film work and to be filmed in the place of the facts, but also for its questions of the useless thing of the war, of the reason the intervention of the NATO, of the reason the world tolerates éso, as well as it questions to the blue helmets of the UN who pass a navidad like kings, while in the survivors' Sarajevo great part they have several days without eating. The work of Kenovic is more than a warning, is a call to the tolerance, to avoid to arrive to situations so lamentable and absurd as that of Sarajevo.

      The performance of Mustafa Nadarevic (Gospa, Washed Out, The Way Home, Captain America, Evil Blood, History of Croacia, When dad is of Trip) it is very outstanding and realist.
      10robert-bogdanic7

      Perfect War

      Finished watching this fabulous movie few minutes ago. I'll try to summarize my view as short as I can. This movie shows war as it is; mindless decisions of those who started it, poor people struggling to survive and find better future, orphans problems, war criminal etc., and how it affects on society (family!) and individuals (suicides). Mustafa Nadarevic did a great role in movie, by making enormous efforts (greater than he gave to his own family) to give two orphans chance to survive and at last, better future. Even he haves drinking problems, he can abstain himself not doing wrong decisions and think reasonably. He deserved more prizes for his characteristic style and honest acting.

      Almedin Leleta and his movie brother Almir Podgorica, 10 and 13 years old when movie was first shown, also empathized their orphans roles and shown great talent. Sincerely, I can only recommend you this movie, particularly if you are from war affected country.

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      • Trivia
        Jasna Zalica's debut.
      • Quotes

        Hamza: Well, you see, this is our man. You give him finger, he would take your arm.

      • Connections
        Features The Gold Rush (1925)

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      • Release date
        • September 10, 1997 (France)
      • Countries of origin
        • Bosnia and Herzegovina
        • France
      • Official sites
        • Oficial Site
        • Oficial Web Site (In English)
      • Language
        • Bosnian
      • Also known as
        • Савршени круг
      • Filming locations
        • Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
      • Production companies
        • ARD Degeto Film
        • Argus Film Produktie
        • Canal+
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      • Runtime
        • 1h 50m(110 min)
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.85 : 1

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