DEVIL IN THE HEARTH (Ѓавол во срцето)
Movie from: 1993
Duration: 117 minutes
Director: Darko Mitrevski
Screenplay: Dejan Dukovski, Darko Mitrevski
Leading Roles: Aleksandar Chaminski, Boris Damovski, Vlado Jovanovski, Darko Mitrevski, Nikola Ristanovski, Stavo Spasovski
Content: The main character in the third story of the movie "Light gray" entitled "The Devil in the Heart" is the cunning
man. The Devil performs his duties until somebody more cunning than him appears. In this case it is the cunning, who manipulates Fidan,
the neighbor of Bronski who has an agency for paranormal matters, with his story of having an unfulfilled agreement with the devil. Fidan
is a shy man under permanent pressure from his wife, which is a result of his timidity and uncertainty in the more or less important
moments of his life. The very same Fidan agrees to help the man cunning correct the injustice that the devil has imposed on him. The
Devil is a person that cares about his image and his word and sticks to what he has had signed, and has never yet made a mistake. However,
the cunning man still has a speech impediment against him. The devil is confused and agrees to break the agreement. He finds the mutually
signed documents for the sale of the soul. It is then, that the cunning is un-masked. He starts speaking properly. Facing somebody that
has tricked him, the devil has a heart attack. The ambulance takes him to hospital and there he admits that he took the throne from the
previous devil in a similar way and that there will always be somebody more cunning than the cunning.
Resume: The project entitled "Light Gray" is of the latest enrichments of Macedonian feature film production. We can
certainly say that this omnibus of three young directors all of them in the final year of their interdisciplinary studies in direction at
the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and the young author of the screenplay, a graduate in dramaturgy from the same faculty undoubtedly came to
refresh the exhausted standards of Macedonian feature film production.
Again we have a film created with the considerable efforts made by its executive producer, TFRZ Pegaz, and its chief animator the
experienced production manager Panta Mizhimakov. The participation of authors from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, who reached the official
standards of production and thus rather painlessly faced the non-academic cinematographic practice, was of just as great importance for
this intelligently designed and, above all, bold production enterprise.
This is an omnibus that consists of three stories based on the original script by Dejan Dukovski. These three stories are "An Urubu Bird
and a Virgin", "Wonderful world" and "Devil in the Heart". These three stories were directed by Aleksandar Popovski, Srgjan Janicijevic
and Darko Mitrevski, under the guidance of their professor Stole Popov.
On the creative plan, in all of these stories we feel the striving to find the most adequate expression of the suggested topic.
However, all of them are directed towards different genres despite the fact that they are characterized with a proximity to the current
cinematographic trends in the world.
This promising production is best aesthetically complemented by the achievements of the cameras of Brand Ferro, Apostol Trpevski and
Vladimir Samoilovski. The accurate editing was accomplished by Spase Tasevski, Dimitar Grbevski and Laki Chemchev.
Parts of the somewhat heterogenic cast are: Stevo Spasovski, Sinolichka Trpkovska, Aleksandar Chaminski, Vlado Jovanovski, Nikola
Ristanovski and Jovica Mihajlovski.
Sources: Macedonian Cinema Information Center and Cinemateque of Macedonia.
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