The Man to Kill

The account is set in the eighteenth century. In Russia the emperor Peter the Third has been killed. Catherine has taken the throne. The Devil takes an interest in this. In his view the balance on earth has been upset. To put it right he sends a man of his own. The one he sends is a teacher called Farfa. Farfa resembles the dead emperor. His task is to take power in Montenegro. The people accept him and put him at their head. He gives himself the name Scepan Mali. He holds out against an Ottoman attack. Then he falls for a woman called Elfa. And so he abandons the task he was given. Zvonimir Črnko and Tanja Bošković take the leads in Veljko Bulajić’s Yugoslav film of 1979.