Promise Me This

May 26, 2007

2h 3m

★ 6.6

Overview

An old man named Zivojin Markovic, living in a remote village prays for his grandson Cane to go to the city, sell his cow and bring back a wife. In the city he is supposed to meet up with his grandfather's stepbrother, but this man is dead. Instead, he meets this man's two grandsons, two good-natured brothers who are nevertheless small-time criminals and experts in demolition. Cane soon clicks with these men, and also falls in love with a schoolgirl (Jasna), who he wants to marry as part of his testament with his grandfather. He gets involved in this girl's family affairs, rescuing both her and her mother from prostitution and gangsters headed by a man called Bajo, and the new group of people return to the small village in time to celebrate Zivojin's wedding to his neighbor, despite the gangsters' best efforts to stop the celebration, which results in a double wedding.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

France 2 Cinéma

Rasta International

Fidélité Productions

Promise Me This Trailers

Cast

Jasna

Marija Petronijević

Cane

Uroš Milovanović

Deda, Živojin Marković

Aleksandar Berček

Gazda

Predrag Laković

Bosa, učiteljica

Ljiljana Blagojević

Mafijaški bos Bajo

Miki Manojlović

Inspektor

Ivan Maximov

Jasnina majka

Kosanka Đekić

Topuz

Stribor Kusturica

Runjo

Vladan Milojević

Cvaka

Stanoje Bogićević

Mrga

Slavko Tošić

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