Zona Zamfirova (film)

Infobox Film
name=Zona Zamfirova
director=Zdravko Šotra
writer=Stevan Sremac (novel)
Zdravko Šotra (adaptation)
starring=Vojin Ćetković
Katarina Radivojević
Dragan Nikolić
Milena Dravić
Radmila Živković
producer=
music=Bilja Krstić
distributor=
released=2002
runtime=104 min
language=Torlakian, Serbian
budget=
imdb_id=0326449

"Zona Zamfirova" (Serbian Cyrillic: "Зона Замфирова") is a 2002 comedy-drama film directed by Zdravko Šotra. It is based on the 1906 book by Serbian author Stevan Sremac. The film contains much Serbian music throughout, and the local Torlakian vernacular of Niš is used instead of standard Serbian, making the film to a certain extent incomprehensible to Serbs from other areas of Serbia.

Plot

"Zona Zamfirova" is set in the southern Serbian city of Niš in the 19th century. The plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova (Katarina Radivojević), a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane (Vojin Ćetković), an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a rich man to marry a craftsman, the two are at first divided, with the possibility of Zona marrying Manulać, who came from a wealthy family. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to keep Zona for himself.