CINE//SONIC Film Concert: GRESNICA BEZ GREHA / SINNER WITHOUT SIN (Yugoslavia, 1927)

Saturday October 31st - Kriterion 1
22.30 / 3 marks

Director: Kosta Novakovic

Kingalita & the Turo Rudi Gipsy Band: youtube

First Balkan classic accompanied by present-day Gipsy sounds!

This film Concert, organised by Video Inferno’s CINE//SONIC and Balkan Snapshots Film Festival, screens the fascinating Balkan film Gresnica Bez Greha (Sinner Without Sin) (1927). The soundtrack of this silent movie will be performed live by the warm and exhilarating gypsy formation “Kingalita and the Turo Rudi Gipsy Band” (www.myspace.com/kingalita)

Sinner Without Sin is a story about a young girl who leaves her small village and fiancé to travel to Belgrade. While in the city she falls for a man she thinks is a wealthy aristocrat, not knowing he actually prefers to rob banks.

Sinner Without Sin starts as a love story, then evolves into a ‘sexploitation’ film. For the last few reels we end up with a detective story that somehow coexists with a comedy routine by two men doing deliberate imitations of Laurel and Hardy. In short, a magnificent document which brings us back to pre-Yugoslavian times.

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CINE//SONIC Film Concert: GRESNICA BEZ GREHA / SINNER WITHOUT SIN (Yugoslavia, 1927)