Poster for Promised Land

Promised Land

1986 2 hours 1 minute
66/100

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Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.

Released

20th March 1986

40 years ago

Runtime

2 hours 1 minute

Finishes at 12:54am

Ratings and awards

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    6.9/10

  • TMDb Logo

    63%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    66%

Directed by

Veljko Bulajić

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Written by

Veljko Bulajić, Dejan Rebić, Ivo Brešan

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