When the Day Had No Name

Feb 14, 2017

1h 24m

★ 6.0

Overview

On the day before Easter 2012, the bodies of four teenagers were found by the edge of a lake just outside Skopje. The bodies had been lined up, each with a bullet hole in their head. The boys had been on a fishing trip. The nation was shocked. Rumours run wild. It is a film about a country where life can come to a sudden end without cause or explanation.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Vertigo

Entre Chien et Loup

Sisters and Brother Mitevski

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Cast

Milan

Leon Ristov

Petar

Hanis Bagashov

Milan's Stepmother

Labina Mitevska

Petar's Mother

Nikolina Kujača

Cashier in Shop

Ana Kostovska

Vladan

Dragan Mishevski

Ace

Stefan Kitanović

Rape

Ivan Vrtev Šoptrajanov

Cvetan

Igor Postolov

Miliana

Pirunika Kiselički

Renata

Ines Hodžić

Elena

Irina Apelgren

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