Kenedi Is Getting Married

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Audience Member Zhelimir Zhilnik is a Serbian film director and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. He was many times noted as a troublemaker in the socialist Yugoslavia with his socially engaging style and criticism of censorship that was commonplace during that time. Zhelimir was born in the Nazi-run Crveni Krst concentration camp in September 1942 where his Serbian communist activist mother Milica "Masha" Shuvakovic was imprisoned by Germans since early 1942. His father was a Slovene communist activist and Partisan fighter Konrad "Slobodan" Zhilnik who got severely wounded and taken prisoner in March 1944. Posthumously, he was awarded the People's Hero gallantry medal. Well, that gave his son somehow "right" to raise his voice against any injustice. Of course, later on with the abolition of the socialist system, he was an outspoken critic of the new government. That is a director who came up with this latest adventures by Kenedi Hasani (earlier the protagonist from Kenedi Goes Back Home, 2004) in which the director visits the Roma kid and rebel with a cause again and pursues his life in an acted documentary. [img]http://www.cinemacity.org/media_lib/files/Kenedi_se_zeni_poster_2007web.jpg[/img] Kenedi Goes Back Home (IFFR 2004) told the story of Yugoslavs who left the country during war and were sent back home in 2002. In that instalment Zhelimir Zhilnik followed the stories of a few families, and especially that of the outstanding 'rebel with a cause', Kenedi Hasani. Fascinated by this person, the director found the protagonist two years later in Vienna and shot a short about him. [img]http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/FilmAssets/000000/00000011/scaled/1122.jpg[/img] With his latest film Kenedi is Getting Married, he comes back to one of his favourite people from the Romale community. It is almost impossible to specify the genre but one could say this movie is a social docudrama where Kenedi, from being an object, becomes an active subject of the film. Re-enacting his own life, with a few documentary sequences included, he manages to keep us entertained and educated, as well as emotionally involved in his life. Kenedi is in debt after building a house for his family, and he has very short time to return the money or the builder will demolish the house and take his building material back. In this frantic race for money he tries everything, working for as little as 10 euros a day. At one stage he decides to look for money in the sex trade, offering his services to older lady, but soon expands his 'business' to offer sex to wealthy men. Later on he finds out that the more lucrative business might be marrying someone from the west and he sets off on his search for a suitable partner... [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxia9ahe6b1qb201so1_500.jpg[/img] It is a real life story with real life people - not much acting here. Most of it is very well done, from the music, to the story and acting to the presentation of the Romale population. According to Zhilnik, this is not the end of the story ... and I am so pleased hearing that. This is a movie which everyone interested in real life should see. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member I thought the movie was going to be funny but, sadly, it was not. it showed some absurd serbian world. The scene with one gipsy singing was awful. And the the Serbs that spoke some broken German (asi Deutsch) - btw. it is interesting that some people after spending 10 years in germany still speak hardly any german. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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