St. George Slays the Dragon is a Serbian World War I drama directed by Srđan Dragojević and written by Dušan Kovačević. The movie premiered on March 11, 2009. With a budget of around €5 million, it was one of the most expensive Serbian movie productions to date. Some of the funds have been donated by the governments of Serbia and Republika Srpska who deemed the movie to be of national importance. Kovačević's script is based on his 1984 theater play that was staged to great success in Belgrade's Atelje 212 and Novi Sad's Serbian National Theatre. The... movie starts with Kingdom of Serbia battling, as part of the Balkan League, the remaining Turkish occupiers during the First Balkan War in 1912 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the crucial Battle of Cer, the first allied victory in World War I. It is largely set in and around a small village by the Sava river at Serbia's border with Austria-Hungary.
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| Release date: | October 2008 |
| Directed by: | Srđan Dragojević |
| Runtime: | 150 Minutes |
| Producer: | Lazar Ristovski, Milko Josifov, Biljana Prvanovic, Srđan Dragojević |
| Editor: | Petar Markovic |
| Cinematography: | Dušan Joksimović |
| Screenplay by: | Dušan Kovačević |