The powerful and richly textured second feature from Joshua Marston focuses on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law, this entitles the dead man's family to take the life of a male from Nik's family as retribution. His uncle in jail and his father in hiding, Nik is the prime target and confined to the home while his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Laçej) is forced to leave school and take over their father's business. -- (C) IFC
Production
| Director: | Joshua Marston |
| Producer: | Eric Abraham (executive producer) |
| Gwen Bialic (co-producer) | |
| Tyler Brodie (executive producer) | |
| Janine Gold (executive producer) | |
| Andrew Goldman (associate producer) | |
| Hunter Gray (executive producer) | |
| Paul Mezey (producer) | |
| Andamion Murataj (co-producer) | |
| Domenico Procacci (executive producer) | |
| Writer: | Joshua Marston (written by) &) |
| Andamion Murataj (written by) |
Reviews for The Forgiveness of Blood
The A.V. Club
The Forgiveness Of Blood has a strong premise, and Marston has clearly worked hard to get ancient traditions right, like the presence of mediators to negotiate between the two families—abiding not by the letter of the law, but by codes dating back...
Read review23 Feb 2012
New York Post
Welcome to 21st-century Albania, where an ancient code of justice persists alongside the latest technological gadgets. In “The Forgiveness of Blood,’’ teenager Nik (Tristan Halilaj) finds himself a marked man after his father kills a neighbor...
Read review23 Feb 2012
The Globe And Mail
In telling the story of one such feud, The Forgiveness of Blood wisely narrows the perspective in order to broaden its scope.
Read review30 Mar 2012
National Post
When Robert Frost wrote that “good fences make good neighbours,” he was being sarcastic. An example of good fences making for very bad neighbours indeed can be found in The Forgiveness of Blood, this smart second feature from writer/director Joshua...
Read review29 Mar 2012
Filmcritic.com
Most teenagers assume that their life is inherently unfair: those chores are too much given the meagre allowance, their parents always take their siblings' sides in arguments, and so on. In the case of Nik, an Albanian teen who's confined to the house...
Read review23 Feb 2012
External Links
| IMDb.com, Inc.: | www.imdb.com/title/tt1787127/ |
| Box Office Mojo: | www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=forgivenessofblood.htm |
| Wikipedia: | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forgiveness_of_Blood |
| Rotten Tomatoes: | www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_forgiveness_of_blood/ |
Reviews for The Forgiveness of Blood
The A.V. Club
The Forgiveness Of Blood has a strong premise, and Marston has clearly worked hard to get ancient traditions right, like the presence of mediators to negotiate between the two families—abiding not by the letter of the law, but by codes dating back...
Read review23 Feb 2012
New York Post
Welcome to 21st-century Albania, where an ancient code of justice persists alongside the latest technological gadgets. In “The Forgiveness of Blood,’’ teenager Nik (Tristan Halilaj) finds himself a marked man after his father kills a neighbor...
Read review23 Feb 2012
The Globe And Mail
In telling the story of one such feud, The Forgiveness of Blood wisely narrows the perspective in order to broaden its scope.
Read review30 Mar 2012
National Post
When Robert Frost wrote that “good fences make good neighbours,” he was being sarcastic. An example of good fences making for very bad neighbours indeed can be found in The Forgiveness of Blood, this smart second feature from writer/director Joshua...
Read review29 Mar 2012
Filmcritic.com
Most teenagers assume that their life is inherently unfair: those chores are too much given the meagre allowance, their parents always take their siblings' sides in arguments, and so on. In the case of Nik, an Albanian teen who's confined to the house...
Read review23 Feb 2012
Cast
| Refet Abazi | |||
 | Tristan Halilaj | ... | Nik |
 | Sindi Lacej | ... | Rudina |
| Ilire Vinca Celaj |
Production
| Director: | Joshua Marston |
| Producer: | Eric Abraham (executive producer) |
| Gwen Bialic (co-producer) | |
| Tyler Brodie (executive producer) | |
| Janine Gold (executive producer) | |
| Andrew Goldman (associate producer) | |
| Hunter Gray (executive producer) | |
| Paul Mezey (producer) | |
| Andamion Murataj (co-producer) | |
| Domenico Procacci (executive producer) | |
| Writer: | Joshua Marston (written by) &) |
| Andamion Murataj (written by) | |
| Composer: | Leonardo Heiblum |
| Jacobo Lieberman | |
| Cinematographer: | Rob Hardy |
| Editing: | Malcolm Jamieson |
| Casting: | Andamion Murataj |
| Production Design: | Tommaso Ortino |
| Makeup: | Rondi Scott (makeup artist) |
| Production Management: | Andrew Goldman (post-production supervisor) |
Companies
| Production Studio: | Sundance Selects |
| Fandango | |
| Portobello Pictures |
 | Albania | 17 Sep 2011 |
| Netherlands | 5 Jan 2012 | |
| Germany | 18 Feb 2011 | |
| Russian Federation | 25 Jun 2011 | |
 | Israel | 9 Jul 2011 |
| Australia | 25 Jul 2011 | |
| United States | 24 Feb 2012 | |
| Canada | 6 Apr 2012 | |
| Finland | 15 Sep 2011 | |
| United Kingdom | 10 Aug 2012 | |
| Brazil | 21 Oct 2011 | |
| Greece | 5 Nov 2011 | |
| France | 2 Feb 2012 | |
| Poland | 27 Apr 2012 | |
| Ireland | 10 Aug 2012 | |
| Italy | 29 Aug 2012 |
