Bal-Can-Can (Macedonian: Бал-Кан-Кан, transliterated Bal-Kan-Kan) is a 2005 Macedonian-Italian joint production film about a deserter who travels throughout the Balkans as a political immigrant in search of his dead mother-in-law who is wrapped in a carpet.
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| Bal-Can-Can | |
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Bulgarian poster | |
| Directed by | Darko Mitrevski |
| Written by | Darko Mitrevski |
| Produced by | Darko Mitrevski Alessandro Verdecchi Gianluca Curti Loris Curci |
| Starring | Vlado Jovanovski Adolfo Margiotta Zvezda Angelovska |
| Cinematography | Suki Medencevic |
| Edited by | Giacobbe Gamberini |
| Music by | Kiril Džajkovski |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Countries | Macedonia Italy |
| Languages | Macedonian Italian Serbian Bulgarian Croatian Bosnian Albanian English Russian |
| Budget | 1,300,000 € |
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Vlado Jovanovski | Trendafil Karanfilov |
| Adolfo Margiotta | Santino Genovese |
| Zvezda Angelovska | Ruža Karanfilova |
| Branko Đurić | Šefket Ramadani |
| Seka Sablić | Zumbula |
| Toni Mihajlovski | Džango |
| Miodrag Krivokapić | Veselin Kabadajić |
| Nikola Kojo | Osman Rizvanbegović |
| Branko Ognjanovski | Serafim Karanfilov |
| Vasko Todorov | Vitomir |
The film was mostly praised by critics with some reviewers, such as Dennis Harvey of Variety, commenting on the film; "Writer-helmer Darko Mitrevski keeps pushing the envelope... The cynical, hallucinatory, modern Pilgrim's Progress is a trip, with memorably out-there sequences sure to build a cult rep among adventuresome cineastes."
The film was the highest-grossing film to date in the Republic of Macedonia. It was also released in Russia, United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
| Event | Award | Winner/Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27th Moscow International Film Festival[1] | Special Mention of the Film Critic's Guild of Russia | Darko Mitrevski | Won |
| Golden St. George | Darko Mitrevski | Nominated | |
| Motovun Film Festival | Propeller of Motovun - From A to A Award, Best Film In the South-East European Region | Darko Mitrevski | Won |