''The Smell of Quinces'' ( sr, Miris dunja) is a 1982 Yugoslav
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by Mirza Idrizović. It was entered into the
13th Moscow International Film Festival
The 13th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1983. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Moroccan-Guinea-Senegalese film '' Amok'' directed by Souheil Ben-Barka, the Nicaraguan-Cuban-Mexican-Costa Rican film ''Alsino and ...
.
The film was also selected as the Yugoslav entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
55th Academy Awards
The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau. Louis Gossett Jr. became the first Africa ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Cast
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Mustafa Nadarević
Mustafa Nadarević (2 May 1943 – 22 November 2020) was a Bosnian and Croatian actor. Widely considered one of the greatest actors from the former Yugoslavia, he starred in over 70 films, including ''The Smell of Quinces'' (1982), ''When Father ...
as Mustafa
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Ljiljana Blagojević
Ljiljana Blagojević ( sr-cyr, Љиљана Благојевић; born 5 November 1955 in Belgrade, Serbia PR Serbia in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia]) is a Serbian theater, film, and television actress. She is married to ...
as Luna
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Irfan Mensur
Irfan Mensur ( sr-cyr, Ирфан Менсур; born Irfan Kurić, sr-cyr, Ирфан Курић; 19 January 1952) is a Serbian theatre, television, and film actor of Bosnian descent.
Early life
Born to father Mensur Kurić from Niš whose fami ...
as Ibrahim
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Izet Hajdarhodžić
Izet Hajdarhodžić (25 December 1929 – 12 December 2006) was a Croatian actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1967 to 1989.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1929 birt ...
as Hamdibeg
* Nada Djurevska as Azra
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Semka Sokolović-Bertok
Semka Sokolović-Bertok (22 December 1935 – 4 March 2008) was a Bosnian and Croatian actress. She also was a competitive chess player in her youth, winning the Croatian Chess Juniors Championship eight times.
Personal life
Semka was a descenda ...
as Esma
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Boro Stjepanović
Borislav "Boro" Stjepanović (born 8 May 1946 in Vareš, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian film, theater and television actor.
He has played in over 50 films since the 1960s, most notably in '' Sjećaš li se Doli Bel'', ' ...
as Alkalaj
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Špela Rozin
Špela Rozin (born 31 January 1943) is a Slovenian actress that became famous in the cinema of Yugoslavia. Her breakout role was the lead role in the film '' Strange Girl (film), Strange Girl'' that became a cult classic because of the modern por ...
as Marija
* Branko Đurić as Lt. Storm
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Zijah Sokolović
Zijah Sokolović (born 22 December 1950) is a Bosnian actor, writer and director. He is the director of ''Theaterland'' in Salzburg, professor at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, artistic director of ''Dežela gledališča'' theat ...
as Huso Mujagin
See also
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References
External links
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1982 films
1982 drama films
Serbo-Croatian-language films
Yugoslav drama films
Films set in Sarajevo
Films about businesspeople
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