Drama · Yugoslavia · 1955 · 1h 22m

The Girl and the Oak

Djevojka i hrast

Director

Cast

Tamara Miletič as Smilja Ljuba Tadić as Josip Miodrag 'Deba' Popović as Bojan Andrej Kurent as Ivan Viktor Bek as Marko Josip Petričić as Roko

Crew

Frano Vodopivec — Director of Photography Radojka Tanhofer — Editor Branimir Sakač — Original Music Composer Mirko Božić — Writer Frano Simunovic — Production Design Vlasta Hegedusic — Costume Design

Synopsis

Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree and she is left without parents. Luckily, she gets adopted and continues to nurture the oak where her mother died. Many years later, Smilja is a handsome woman, but her jealous stepbrother Josip kills her boyfriend Ivan and rapes her. Ivan's brothers swear revenge.

Mood & Themes

Key Collaborators

Krešimir Golik Director Frano Vodopivec Director of Photography Radojka Tanhofer Editor Branimir Sakač Original Music Composer Mirko Božić Writer Frano Simunovic Production Design Vlasta Hegedusic Costume Design

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