Petria's Wreath

The film is set in a small mining town in Serbia. The account covers a long span of time. The years before the war, the war and after it are all inside it. At its centre is a woman who came from a village. The woman cannot read or write. Over her life she has loved three men. The film tells her life with those three. Her life is split between her dreams and what is real. Suffering and loneliness are inside that life. So is disappointment. But there is hope and love as well. The account is built on that tension. Mirjana Karanović and Dragan Maksimović take the leads, with Pavle Vuisić and Olivera Marković also in the cast, in Srđan Karanović’s Yugoslav film of 1980.