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Bal-Can-Can
Bulgarian poster
Directed by	Darko Mitrevski
Written by	Darko Mitrevski
Produced by	Darko Mitrevski Alessandro Verdecchi Gianluca Curti Loris Curci
Starring	Vlado Jovanovski Adolfo Margiotta Zvezda Angelovska
Cinematography	Suki Medencevic
Edited by	Giacobbe Gamberini
Music by	Kiril Džajkovski
Release date	2 February 2005 (2005-02-02)
Running time	89 minutes
Countries	Macedonia Italy
Languages	Macedonian Italian Serbian Bulgarian Croatian Bosnian Albanian English Russian
Budget	1,300,000 €

Bal-Can-Can (Macedonian: Бал-Кан-Кан, transliterated Bal-Kan-Kan) is a 2005 Macedonian-Italian joint production film about a deserter who travels throughout the Balkans as a political immigrant in search of his dead mother-in-law who is wrapped in a carpet.

Cast

Actor	Role
Vlado Jovanovski	Trendafil Karanfilov^[1]
Adolfo Margiotta	Santino Genovese^[1]
Zvezda Angelovska	Ruža Karanfilova
Branko Đurić	Šefket Ramadani
Seka Sablić	Zumbula
Toni Mihajlovski	Džango
Miodrag Krivokapić	Veselin Kabadajić
Nikola Kojo	Osman Rizvanbegović
Branko Ognjanovski	Serafim Karanfilov
Vasko Todorov	Vitomir

Production

The film was a co-production of Macedonia (now North Macedonia), Italy, Serbia and Montenegro and Britain. The executive producer of the film was Loris Curci. The screenplay was written by Darko Mitrevski, who also directed the film. The director of cinemaphotography was Suki Medencević and the film was edited by Giacobbe Gamberini.^[1] Auditions for extras were held in July 2003 in Skopje. The filming happened in September and October.^[2]

Release

The film was released in 2005.^[3]

Reception

Dennis Harvey of Variety, commenting on the film, wrote: "Writer-helmer Darko Mitrevski keeps pushing the envelope... The cynical, hallucinatory, modern Pilgrim's Progress is a trip, with memorably out-there sequences sure to build a cult rep among adventuresome cineastes."^[4]

Box office

The film has been the highest-grossing film in North Macedonia, with over 100,000 tickets sold.^[5] It was also released in Russia, United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Awards and nominations

Event	Award	Winner/Nominee	Result
27th Moscow International Film Festival^[6]	Special Mention of the Film Critic's Guild of Russia	Darko Mitrevski	Won
27th Moscow International Film Festival^[6]	Golden St. George	Darko Mitrevski	Nominated
Motovun Film Festival	Propeller of Motovun - From A to A Award, Best Film In the South-East European Region	Darko Mitrevski	Won

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Со иронија за драматичните состојби". Time (Dnevnik) (in Macedonian). 2 October 2003.
^ "Аудиции за статисти во филмот "Бал-кан-кан"". Time (Dnevnik) (in Macedonian). 4 July 2003.
^ Renate Hansen-Kokorus (2017). "The Image of the Stranger in Post-Yugoslav Films". Contemporary Southeastern Europe (2): 151.
^ "Bal-Can-Can". Variety. 3 April 2006.
^ ""Honeyland" and the relaunch of Macedonian cinema". Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa. 7 February 2020.
^ "27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2013-04-09.

External links

Bal-Can-Can at IMDb

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