AS FILM PRODUCTION
Mitrovica str. # 17, 10000 Prishtina – KOSOVA
Tel. +381 38 245 557
Fax. +381 38 244 236
Email: asfilmproduction@gmail.com
AGNUS DEI
(A short synopsis)
Based on true story ‘Agnus Dei’ is a kind of Oedipus of our days. A young man Peter, who is
around thirties, lives a desperate life with his mother Maria and her husband Stojan in one
village of Serbia. Peter is born in Kosova from a forbidden love between his mother Maria and
the young Albanian man, but for this he is not aware Is the period of time when the relations
between Serbs and Albanians are inimical, exactly is the time of the beginning of war. Peter is
forced by his mother and the others to go to the war. He intends to escape the war and goes to
the West. He is mobilized forcefully in one paramilitary unit in Kosova’s war. In one action
prepared as a revenge, he kills his father Dini whom he never had the chance to meet. Being
not able to bear the arbitrary crimes, Peter, deserts from the army. He takes Dini’s daughter
Maria and together they escape to the mountains. During their dangerous trip they are
followed from both sides of enemies, Serbs and Albanians. Peter and Maria fell in love. They
reach to come back in Peter’s home in Serbia. As soon as they returnee home, Peter realizes
that he had killed his biologic father and he had fall in love with his sister. Not being able to
stand this spiritual condition he commits a suicide.
(Log Line)
I was born from the ones that I shouldn’t , I lived with those that I mustn’t
and I killed the one that I shouldn’t.
(A very short synopsis)
Based on a true story, Agnus Dei is a kind of Oedipus of our days. Peter must
find this way to redemption. But the past will make itself known and fate sparingly
gives mercy. Can be save himself, or even be saved at all?
Statement of the director
The film ‘Agnus Dei’ is putting upon the idea of myth repetition. The man as an fragile
and hurtful human being, always is in a great loss. Even when he loves, when he’s got
power or when he is depressed. And even in that time when he wants to escape from
the evil, or when he goes straight towards it. Freighting desperately to have the power, ill
mannered in action, the man in the permanent behavior fights to dominate upon his
mankind, selfish as ever even than when he builds his happiness upon the pain of the
others. In reality the man always behaves in his vicious circle of repetition of destiny, the
Oedipus in antiquity, or Peter in now days.
Maria and Peter, mother and son, two faces of one medallion, two selfish creatures, who
in continuity loves the same thing, even though one of them runs away from its destiny
whereas the other goes straight towards his fate. Being conquered by love and hate,
filled with a kind of demonic energy that goes beyond the reason and to resign oneself to
one’s passion that is politically motivated, ethnically or ideologically. In the different
social-political phases during the period of transitory or during the war time, Maria and
Peter remains unchangeable. Only the shape changes. The package of life. ‘Agnus Dei’
doesn’t pretend to change anything. It only goes easily sliding, full with passion and
lyrical through the wild and cruel shapes of life in the dictature of war. Being the witness
of the destruction and loss. The disheveled individuality as an essential theory of life and
destroyable family as on essential institution of civilization. In this manner, ‘Agnus Dei’
pretends to be transformed in one chronicle history of loss, upon the repetition of myth
and the resurrection through the period of ages.
So, ‘Agnus Dei’ doesn’t attempt to change the imagination of what has happened. It
pretends to tell the story of love and hate in two generations. Of all the sufferings and
incapability, the willing for life even then when life appears impossible, of passion for
loving and for being loved. For passion of hate and the wickedness till the annihilation.
‘Agnus Dei’ doesn’t accuse, doesn’t prejudice, doesn’t incline, doesn’t have the political
attempt or neither philosophical pretending. In fact, it shows life in the permanent war,
the life that has taken the dimensions of myth and which is incapable to get out of the
labyrinth of providence /not divine/ but human.
A. Sopi
Awards:
Audience Award - Prishtina International Film Festival – Prishtina /Sep. 2012/
Gold Prestige Award –The Prestige Film Festival – Eureka, California /May 2013/
Honorable Mention Award – The international Film Award Berlin 2013
Best Feature Film – Cannes van d’Or – European Film Festival – London, 2013
CV of the director / screenwriter
AGIM SOPI
Rruga e Mitrovices nr.17
10 000 Prishtinë – Kosovë
tel. ++ 377 44 110 548, 038 245 557
E-mail: agimsopi@yahoo.com
AGIM SOPI, film-maker
He is born on 23.07.1956, in Prishtina / Kosovo. He attended the University of Zagreb
(Croatia). He has graduated on the Academy of Arts, the branch of directing the film.
Filmography
The documentary films:
The waiting (1980), The midnight guards (1981),
While searching for our deadly dearest (1982),
Beyond the death (1999).
The feature films:
The man of earth (1984)
Anathema (2006)
Agnus Dei (2012)
The Tv-films:
The Pelerine (1982),
The peach-flower of love (1988),
The Tower (1990).
The autumn of roses (2000).
He has written these scenario for feature films:
The Pelerine (according to the same name of the novel of D. Buzzati), The Blind-man (
the adoption of the novel of D. H. Lawrence), The man of earth, The tower, Terra Nichil,
Baby Lee, Anathema, Agnus Dei, The beautiful face of the world which cry, Rahela.
AS FILM PRODUCTION
Mitrovica str. # 17, 10000 Prishtina – KOSOVA
Tel. +381 38 245 557
Fax. +381 38 244 236
Email: asfilmproduction@gmail.com
AGNUS DEI
1. MOVIE
a) Movie title
Original: AGNUS DEI
Web: www.agnusdei-movie.com
English:
AGNUS DEI
b) Movie genre
Feature film:
Drama in the warring time
a). Year of production: 2012.
b). Length: 111’ minutes
- 2316 meters
c). Date of first public projection in the original country: 28 September 2012
d). Festivals /in official selection/:
1. Prifilm Fest – Prishtina (Sep. 2012) Audience Award
2. International Film Festival of India – Goa (Nov.2012)
3. California Cinequest Film Festival – San Jose (March 2013)
4. International Film Festival of Uruguay – Montevideo (April 2013)
5. The Prestige Film Festival – Eureka, California (May 2013) – Gold Prestige Award
6. Barcelona International Film Festival – Barcelona (Jun 2013) – Official finalist
7. A film for peace – International Festival – Udine (Jun 2013)
8. Film Festival Kitzbühel – Austria (August 2013)
9. Ariano International Film Festival – Italy (August 2013)
10. The International Film Award Berlin – Honorable Mention Award (2013)
11. Balkan Film Festival – Pogradec, Albania (September 2013)
12. White Sands International Film Festival – New Mexico (Sept. 2013)
13. Cannes Van d’Or – European Film Festival, UK (Sept. 2013) – Best Feature Film
14. Abuja International Film Festival – Nigeria (Sept. 2013) Nominated: Best Feature
15. Ionian International Film Festival – Greece (Oct. 2013)
16. Marbella International Film Festival- Marbella (Oct. 13)
17. The London International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema - Nominated :
Best film of the festival , Best Foreign Feature Film , Best director of a Foreign Film , Best Original Screenplay,
Best Lead Actress, Best Music, Best director of a Foreign Feature Film.
18. Petaluma International Film Festival – Florida, USA (October 2013)
19. International Samobor Film Music Festival – Samobor, Croatia (October 2013)
20. London Crystal Palace International Film Festival – London (October 2013)
21. Doha International Film Festival – Doha (November 2013)
22. Ourence International Film Festival – Ourence, Spain (November 2013)
2. PRODUCTION
a) Name of film producer
Producer: Agim Sopi
Executive producer: Milazim Salihu
b) Producing company
Name: AS Film Production – Prishtina
Address: Mirovica str. # 17 – 10 000 Prishtina – Kosovo
City: Prishtina
Country: Kosovo – Europe
Phone: +381 38 245 557 Fax: +381 38 244 234 E-mail: asfilmproduction@gmail.com
c) Sale company
Name: ITN Distribution
Address: 9663 Santa Monica Bvld. No. 859
City:
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Country: USA
Phone: 702 882 6926
Fax: 877 691 3456 Web: www.itndistribution.com
3. AUTHORS AND TECHNICIANS
a) Film director
Name: Agim Sopi
Place and date of birth: Prishtina – Kosovo (23.07.1956)
Adress: Mother Teresa str. # 21 – 10 000 Prishtina – Kosovo
Phone: +377 44 110 548 Fax: +381 38 244 238 E-mail: agimsopi@yahoo.com
b) Author of the original subject: Agim Sopi
c) Script-writer: Agim Sopi
d) Composer: Mendi Mengjiqi
e) Director of photography: Menduh Nushi
f) Set designer: Afrim Gora
g) Editor: Agron Vula
4. CAST
1. Performer :
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8. Performer:
ASTRIT ALIHAJDARAJ
DAFINA BERISHA
ZAKLINA OSTIR
ENVER PETROVCI
ÇUN LAJQI
BISLIM MUÇAJ
BLERIM GJOCI
LUMNIE SOPI
Character: Peter
Character: Beautiful Maria
Character: Mother Maria
Character: Commander Vojvoda
Character: Sergeant Vuk
Character: Din Sokojeva
Character: Mema
Character: Mema’s wife
5. TECHNICAL FEATURES
1. Size for the screening movie: 35 mm 1:1,85 (24 images-second) or DCP
2. Sound: Dolby digital
Trailer:
www.traileraddict.com/trailer/agnus-dei/trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51eLvge6g0k