Awards:
PULA: Great Golden Arena for the film, Golden Arena for directing – Zdravko Velimirovic, Golden Arena for the scenography, Golden Arena for the camera, Golden Arena the best actor – Abdurahman Salja, Prize CIDALC – Zdravko Velimirovic, Golden ring of newpaper “Svjet” for the best actor – Voja Miric
NIS: Grand Prix “Cele kula” – Voja Miric
BELGRADE: The October Prize of the Town of Belgrade – Zdravko Velimirovic

Movie Synopsys:

This is the drama about friendship and love, dogma and power, located in Bosnia at the beginning of the XIXth century, at the time of the Ottoman Empire.

Ahmed Nurudin, the devout head of the Islam sect of dervishes, has his beliefs shaken when the authorities arrest and execute his innocent brother. Answering with evil for evil, Ahmed overthrows the ruling camarilla. He believes that it is possible to change the world by introducing reforms and establishing justice.

However, the system in which only the people, but not the spirit of the regime have been changed, draws Ahmed into its grasp and destroys him as a moral being. Breaking away from his illusions, the idea of the inevitability of resistance grows in him... Which is more a humanistic message through time than a path to personal salvation.