Sworn Virgin(2016)

Strand Releasing

1h 24m
- Drama

Release Date: Apr 22, 2016

6.4

Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.

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Release Details

Original Release | Apr 22, 2016 | Limited

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$830
Total US & Canada:
$4,636
Total International
$104,045
Total Worldwide:
$108,681

Current Showtimes

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Director & Top Cast

Laura Bispuri
Director

Alba Rohrwacher
Actor

Emily Ferratello
Actor

Lars Eidinger
Actor

Flonja Kodheli
Actor

Luan Jaha
Actor

Bruno Shllaku

Actor

Ilire Vinca Celaj

Actor

Drenica Selimaj

Actor

Dajana Selimaj

Actor

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France

Language: Albanian,Italian

Summaries

Storyline

Hana Doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being wife and servant which is imposed on the women in the inhospitable mountains in Albania. She appeals to the old law of the Kanun and swears her eternal virginity thus becoming a "sworn virgin". She turns into a man, takes up a rifle and becomes Mark, Mark Doda. It is in exchange for this sacrifice that Hana is allowed to be considered at the same level as other men. Her battle does not only mean that she must rebel against what destiny has been writing on her body for centuries, but she must also reject, in name of this rebellion, every form of love. A refusal that becomes her prison. After more than ten years spent in solitude in the mountains as a man, she becomes brutish and she transforms to survive the hardship, the cold and misery, until something returns to awaken her again... Hana decides to change life and painstakingly regain her body. She knows that leaving the mountains is the price she will have to pay to be able to go back to living. A journey drags her away from her arid land, a journey that will mean she will have to revisit her past and exhume memories and feelings that she was made to bury in oblivion. Following a path that is a continuous and subtle crossing of two different and distant worlds, of the past and the future. In a modern Milan metropolis, she struggles to leave her man's clothes and learns to be woman. She experiences the heady sensation of physical contact with others, and she finds dear and beloved people that life had taken from her and there opens an unexpected and forbidden possibility of love. Mark not only returns to being Hana, but she is also able to piece the two souls back together that for years have lived inside her body and she is reborn as a new, free and complete.

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