The Dagger Nož; which meansK nife) is a 1999  drama film directed by Miroslav Lekic The film was written by Miroslav Lekić, and Igor Bojović. The plot is based on Vuk Drakopvic novel of the same name. The story follows the life of Ilija Jugović/Alija Osmanovic and depicts the horror and absurdity of ethnic partitions.

In 1999, the film was screened at the 13th Montenegro Film Festival, and gained five featured awards. The film also earned the “Fipresci Award” for Directing, five acting awards in the Niš Film Festival and the “Crystal Star” at the Brussels Film Festival.

PLOT: Set in the 1960s and observed from the point of view of Alija Osmanović, a young Muslim medical student raised by a single mother, his entire family was slaughtered and his baby brother kidnapped by Chetniks during the Second World War, as the aftermath of a violent family feud between the Jugović (Christian) and Osmanović (Muslim) families. He not only learns that the Osmanović family were once a branch of the Jugović family who converted to Islam during the Ottoman era, but that, unbeknownst to his mother, he himself was a baby taken from the Jugović family, after the massacre on Christmas Eve in 1942. With both families now extinct, and Alija, as the descendant of both, torn between two cultures and two identities, he struggles to maintain his inner peace, desperately searching for his long lost step-brother and fighting the prejudices against the romantic relationship he has with a Serbian classmate.

REGION:2 (PAL EUROPA)

ACTORS:Zarko Lausevic,Bojana Maljevic,Aleksandar Bercek,Ljiljana Blagojevic,Petar Bozovic,Bata Zivojinovic,Nikola Kojo,Svetozar Cvetkovic,Dragan Nikolic....

LANGUAGE:Serbian

SUBITILES: NO SUBTITLES

RUNNING TIME 135 MIN.