The Forgiveness Of Blood (2012) | Film-Trailer, Tickets, Cast, Drama Story & More!
About Movie :-
Nik is a carefree Albanian teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law, this entitles the dead man's family to take the life of a male from Nik's family as retribution. His uncle in jail and his father in hiding, Nik is the prime target and confined to the home while his younger sister Rudina is forced to leave school and take over their father's business.
The Forgiveness of Blood: Berlin Review
This year in Berlin, seven years after his debut feature, Maria Full of Grace, premiered at Sundance, New York-based writer/director Joshua Marston unveiled his follow-up, The Forgiveness of Blood. Winner of the festival’s Screenplay Award (for Marston and Andamion Murataj’s script), the film sends Marston from the Colombia of Maria to a village in Albania, where local traditions include the protection of family honor through blood feuds. Marston focuses on a teenage boy who is collateral damage in one of these disputes, unable to leave his home for fear of being killed for his father’s dispute. We asked Marston about blood feuds and honor killings, working abroad, and the long gap between his features.
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Filmmaker: What interested you in the subject of honor killings?
Marston :- What fascinated me most about Albania, from the start, was that it’s a country in transition and thus full of interesting contrasts and contradictions. I was surprised to discover that in a place with cell phones and Facebook blood feuds still go on. Families live stuck inside their houses for years on end. Aside from being a dramatic story, the film is a complicated examination of people grappling with the pull of a deeply rooted tradition versus the desire to modernize. So for me, looking outward –- even to northern Albania –- becomes a way of looking inward, at universal questions like how we carry forward old traditions into new times, and what it means for young people to grow up in the face of a widening generation gap.
How did you first come across the topic of blood feuds?
Joshua Marston :- This is how Albania gets written about in the newspaper. The blood feuds are the one thing anyone ever writes about. What captured my attention was the contrast between the old and the new. It’s a feud that is specifically referencing a set of rules and laws that go back for centuries [The Kanun]. It’s not just an eye for an eye, but rather an eye for an eye with these caveats and these rules of how you can go about it and under what circumstances. All of the rules are completely antiquated. That was fascinating, that it took place in the context of kids with cell phones going on Facebook.
What was the research process like?
There were two aspects of it. One was just learning about blood feuds and about the experience of being stuck in the house. It was interviewing families who were living in isolation, mediators and teachers who do home schooling, NGOs and anyone related to a blood feud. Beyond that, it was trying to understand Albania and what it’s like to be teenager there. It was waiting until school lets out and striking up conversations with kids about what they do after school, whether they get pocket money and how they spend it. How they get dates. That way I would know about normal life before it gets interrupted.
The Forgiveness Of Blood(2012)- Cast & Crew
PRODUCTION DETAILS :-
In Theaters February 24, 2012
MPAA Rating Not Rated
Genres Drama
Distributors Sundance Selects
Run Time 1 hour 49 minutes
DIRECTORS :-
Joshua Marston Director
CAST :-
Tristan Halilaj Nik
Sindi Lacej Rudina
Refet Abazi Mark
Ilire Vinca Celaj Drita
Cun Lajci Ded
Veton Osmani Sokol
Selman Lokaj Kreshnik
Kol Zefi Shpend
Zana Hasaj Bardha
Erjon Mani Tom
Luan Jaha Zef
Esmeralda Gjonlulaj Bora
Elsajed Tallalli Dren
Gjin Basha Hasan Pema
WRITERS :-
Joshua Marston Screenplay
Andamion Murataj Screenplay
PRODUCERS :-
Domenico Procacci Executive Producer
Eric Abraham Executive Producer
Tyler Brodie Executive Producer
Janine Gold Executive Producer
Hunter Gray Executive Producer
Paul S. Mezey Producer
Andamion Murataj Co-Producer
Gwen Bialic Co-Producer
Andrew Goldman Associate Producer
EDITORS :-
Malcolm Jamieson Editor
CASTING :-
Andamion Murataj Casting
