Virgina

(1991)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1991

Runtime: 101 мин

Country: France, Yugoslavia

Director: Srđan Karanović

Cast: Miodrag Krivokapić, Ina Gogálová, Slobodan Milovanović, Mirko Vlahović, Matija Prskalo, Vjenceslav Kapural, Nada Gaćešić-Livaković, Andrijana Videnović, Marta Keler, Sladjana Bebic

Plot

"Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man.