Short Serbian documentary āZatvorska molitvaā (eng. Prison prayer) won the āGolden Knightā award at the 25th international festival at Crimea. It is produced by āAdria media groupā and directed by Miljan GogiÄ.
āZatvorska molitvaā is an unseen story from the NiÅ” prison, where itās inmates worked for more than twoĀ years on reconstruction of the prison church, which was built in 1934Ā by King Aleksandar I KaradjordjeviÄ.
This is a story about faith, repentance, and people.
After the Second World War, the chuch in NiÅ” prison served as a lot of things except for religion. For one period it was even a prison kitchen.
Seven years ago this big action takes place: inmates, cartoonists and tattoo artists have rebuilt the church and painted the walls.
Four hundred inmates of different religion were involved in this project.
Faces of the prisoners and the repentance they feel can be best seen in scenes where patriarch Irinej is consecrating their church.

āThe āGolden Knightā award is just a confirmation of worldwide recognition for āAdria media groupā movie. We proved that our video-production can make high quality content and can be side-by-side with biggest global productions. I am very proud on all colleagues that were involved in this project. This award is very significant for āAdria media groupā and it shows that we made a good move by starting our own video-production sector. Starting from few YouTube shows, we managed to create a documentary and pick up big awards. Internet video is not the future trend, itās present and we proved that with this award. I would also like to thank our business partners that support us and our ideas of media developementā, said Predrag RoganoviÄ, Director of Digital media in āAdria media groupā.
This renowned festival hosted more than 190 movies from more than 20 countries. āGolden Knightā is one of the most important film festivals, which is organized by Russian Ministry of Culture and is sponsored by Russian president Vladimir Putin, famous russian film director Nikita Mihalkov, actor Nikolaj Burljajev and russian patriarch Kiril.
More about documentary āZatvorska molitvaā:
This short documentary is 19 minutes long. The team behind the movie is: Director, screenwriter and producer Miljan GogiÄ; cameramen Antonije VuloviÄ and Vladimir Žujko; organiser and editor AnÄela PopoviÄ. Mounting was done by Branko MaksimoviÄ and post-production of photography by Ivan TanaskoviÄ. Music for the movie was made by Svetislav BožiÄ, Mihajlo RadoviÄ and MiloÅ” PuniÅ”iÄ. Post-production of sound was edited by Branko TopaloviÄ.
Teaser for the movie can be seen here: