Film

Dust

2001

Where Does Your Voice Go When You’re No More?

01 / Story

Synopsis

Where Does Your Voice Go When You’re No More?

A New York thief (Edge), a tough-as-nails hundred-year-old woman (Angela), two brothers from the Wild West (Luke and Elijah), a revolutionary hell-bent on liberating Macedonia from the Ottoman Empire (The Teacher), and a beautiful pregnant woman (Neda), all cross paths in a tale that spans two continents and three centuries. Its fractured narrative resembles a Cubist painting.

02 / Film details

Information

Original title Dust
Production Year 2001
Cast

Elijah – Joseph Fiennes
Luke – David Wenham
Edge – Adrian Lester
Lilith – Anne Brochet
Angela – Rosemary Murphy

03 / Credits

Full Credits

Written and Directed by: Milcho Manchevski
Produced by: Chris Auty, Domenico Procacci
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd BSC
Edited by: Nic Gaster GBFE
Production Designer: David Munns
Music Composed by: Kiril Dzajkovski
Supervising Sound Editor: Peter Baldock
Sound Recordist: Roby Guver
Supervising Line Producer: Kevan Van Thompson
Line Producer, New York: Richard Dooley
Line Producer, Macedonia: Branislav Srdic
Associate Producers: Lars Bloch and Gjorgji Simeonov
Post Production Supervisor: Richard Lloyd
Costume Designer: Ane Crabtree
Hair & Make-Up Designer: Ann Buchanan
Casting Director – London: Leo Davis
Casting Director – New York: Amanda Mackay

Casting Directors – US: Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith & Kerry Barden
Casting Directors – Macedonia: Aneta Lesnikovska and Boban Dedeic

A Film Consortium Presentation
a History Dreams/ena Film/Fandango Production with Shadow Films (Senka Film)

in association with South Fork Pictures
with the support of the Film Council and Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
and Ministerstvo za kultura na Republika Makedonija
with the participation of BSkyB and British Screen

Starring
Elijah – Joseph Fiennes
Luke – David Wenham
Edge – Adrian Lester
Lilith – Anne Brochet
Angela – Rosemary Murphy

Neda – Nikolina Kujaca
Teacher – Vlado Jovanovski
The Major – Salaetin Bilal
Amy – Vera Farmiga
Stitch – Matthew Ross
Bone – Meg Gibson
Kemal – Tamer Ibrahim
Young Angela – Louise Goodall
Spase – Vladimir Jacev
Enver – Vladimir Gjorgjijoski
Maslina – Zora Georgieva
Iorgo – Jordan Simonov
Priest – Josif Josifovski
Church Bell – Joe Mosso
Nurse – Saundra Mcclain
White Trash – Nick Sandow
Paramedic – Bruce Macvittie
Catholic Priest – Tom Strauss
Dosta – Milica Stojanova
Godfather – Stanko Stoilkov
Foreign Priest – Petar Mircevski

Mirko – Mladen Krstevski
Slavejko – Stojan Arev
Krste – Pavle Dameski
Simeon – Martin Mircevski
Flute Boy – Danilo Mandic
Mace Man – Krste Jovanovski
Sailor – Rubens Muratovski
The Madam – Judith Windsor
Sheriff – Randy Duke
Catherine – Afrodita Atanasova
Sigmund Freud – Jon Ivanovski
Painter – Blagoj Micevski
Sam – Elena Mosevska
Judy – Jordanka Todorova
Sharpshooter – Boris Corevski
Perus – Blagoja Spirkoski-Dzumerko
Doctor – Norman Naudain
Photographer at the Wedding – Milanco Georgiev
Priest at the Wedding – Gjorgji Usta Petrov
Arnauts: Sabedin Selmani, Sefedin Nuredini, Fehmi Grubi, Vebi Kerimi, Adrian Aziri, Koljo Cerkezov

Arnauts: Vladimir Endrovski-Ljac, Vanco Melev, Aleksandar Rusjakov, Vladimir Gjuzelov, Dimitar Nikolov-Taki
Ottoman Soldiers: Branko Beninov, Riad Tahir, Vanco Krstevski, Erduan Maksut, Atila Klince, Jean Francois Guissouegou, Alen Nanov, Vasko Mihajlov, Ivan Jercik, Zoran Ljutkov, gor Stojcevski, Srdjan Milosevic, Neat Ali
Komitas: Dzemail Maksut, Branko Koncaliev, Slave Miceski, Atanas Georgiev
Shepherds: Srebre Gjakovski, Najdo Todeski, Petar Dimoski, Dimitar Vandeski, Andon Jovanoski, Trajce Ivanoski, Kiril Gravcev, Blagoja Lefteroski, Igor Dimitrov
Villagers: Tinka Risteska, Andrijana Boskoska, Miliana Dodevska, Lidija Ivanovska, Kire Georgiev, Marjan Cakmakoski, Trajce Kalcoski, Kristijan Risteski, Radica Zdravevska
Brothel: Ratka Radmanovic, Sonja Osavkova, Siuciuan-Hsu, Katarina Ilievska,

Lidija Lea Stojanovska, Natasa Zlatevska, Irena Trajkova, Angela Visnjevskaja, Cvetanka Velevska, Vanja Dimitrova, Dorian Trajkov, Vladimir Jordanov, Filip Todorov
Native Americans: Dzemail Demir, Ismet Ali, Goce Naumov

Dust was filmed in the Republic of Macedonia, New York, and Cologne, Germany
Finance provided by British Screen through the European Co-Production Fund (UK)
Made in association with Alta Films, Highlight Communications AG and Medusa Film, spa

Running Time 2 hours 7 minutes

03 / Video

Trailers & Videos

Dust - International Trailer

International Trailer

Opening night of Venice Film Festival

Other

Japanese Trailer

International Trailer

Brothel Tango - Music Video

Other

Primitive Science - Music Video

Other

The Dead are Waiting - Music Video

Other

Dust - Music Video

Other

Raising Dust - The Making of Dust

Official Trailer

Dust

(Re)inventing Collective Identities

Conference on Dust - an interdisciplinary conference on the film Dust was organized by the Philosophy Department and the Art and Communication Project at the Leipzig University, January 15-17, 2004

Participants and Titles (click on the title to download content)

by Prof. Georg Meggle (Leipzig/Philosophie)

by Prof. Andrija Dimitrijevich (Belgrad/Filmtheorie)

– Serbian version

by Beatrice Kobow (Leipzig/Philosophie-Filmtheorie)

by Dr. Iris Kronauer (Köln-Berlin/Geschichte)

by PD Nikolaos Psarros (Leipzig/Philosophie)

by Erik Tängerstad (Lund/Geschichte-Filmtheorie)

by Dr. Claudia Weber (Leipzig/Geschichte)

by Prof. Stilian Yotov (Sofia/Philosophie)

– German version

– Bulgarian version

by Prof. Despina Angelovska (Skopje/Filmtheorie) – abstract

– French version (full version)

– Macedonian version (full version)

Balkan als Gewaltgeschichte? / Balkans as a history of violence? by Prof. Wolfgang Höpken (Leipzig/Geschichte)

(Re)inszenierung des Realen – Malerei und Film / (Re)Staging of the Real – Painting and Film by Ulrike Kremeier (Berlin-Leipzig/Kunstgeschichte)

Extra

Screenplay

06 / Reviews

Press Quotes

Manchevski is a cubist of the silver screen.
The Globe and Mail
Rare visual intelligence.
Village Voice
A potent, assured and ambitious piece of filmmaking...There’s enough culture clash that Dust doesn’t need the equivalent of a Zen koan.
Elvis MitchellThe New York Times
An extraordinary TransContinental, TransCentennial epic. Director Milcho Manchevski is a real original.
What’s On in London
Manchevski uses diverse characters and a fragmented narrative structure to create a mosaic in which the details of history are subjective, contradictory, and illusory, and recollections are repeatedly altered to suit the desires of the storytellers.
Roderick CooverFilm Quarterly
An investigation into the nature of storytelling, twisting and fracturing his narrative and using jarringly disjunctive images to pull the past and present into a Moebius strip of cruelty, retribution and hope of heaven.
Maitland McDonaghTV Guide
High-end surreal western
stopklatka.pl
07 / Press & Essays

Press & Essays

Essay

(Re)inventing Collective Identities

Interdisciplinary conference on Dust
Essay

Historical Narrative and The East-West Leitmotif in Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain and Dust

Vojislava Filipčević
Essay

Luke Balkanwalker Shoots Down Corto Maltese: Milcho Manchevski's Dust As An Answer to the Western Cultural Colonialism

Svetlana Slapsak
Essay

Лук Балканвокер го убива Корто Малтезе: Прашина на Милчо Манчевски како одговор на западниот културен колонијализам (in Macedonian)

Светлана Слапшак
Essay

Violence - Visualised and Viewed: An exertion on the films Before the Rain and Dust

Erik Tängerstad
Essay

Насилие - показанное и увиденное: на примере фильмов Милчо Манчевскогo

Эрик Тангерстад
Essay

Катахрезис и Прашина (Прилози кон толкувањето на филмот Прашина од Милчо Манчевски) (in Macedonian)

Бранислав Саркањац
Essay

''Dust'' will settle on Venice

David Rooney
Essay

The "Dust" Files: The West with a Skeleton in the Closet

Marina Kostova
Essay

Storytelling and Time in a Cubist Eastern

Beatrice Kobow
Essay

Überlegungen zur Ästhetik des postmodernen Films (in German)

Kerstin Stutterheim
Essay

Borders in/of the Balkan Road Movie

Nevena Daković
Essay

Вкрстување на световите на истокот и западот

Мерсиха Исмајлоска
Essay

Le retour à la Poussière Autour du film Poussière (in French)

Despina Angelovska
Essay

Imaginative_Space:_www.dust_over_dust

Biljana Tanurovska
Essay

Западниот политизиран интерпретативен консензус како обид за токсикација на уметничкото дело (in Macedonian)

Жарко Кујунџиски
Essay

Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

Ian W. Macdonald
Essay

Увод кон печатеното сценарио "Прашина" (in Macedonian)

Венко Андоновски
Review

Cubist of the Silver Screen

Victor Barac / The Globe and Mail
Review

Gunfight at the Old Macedonian Corral

Elvis Mitchell / The New York Times
Article

In His Homeland, Filming War Is Itself a Battle...

Joan Dupont / The New York Times
Review

Once Upon a Time in Macedonia

Maitland McDonagh / TV Guide Online Review
Article

Come on. It'll be fun

Fiachra Gibbons / The Guardian
Review

Un Western In Macedonia (in Italian)

Corriere della Sera
Article

Dust Goes Fashion (in Italian)

ANSA.it
Article

Almanaco del West 2002 (in Italian)

Tex
Article

Film Explores a Timeless 'Dust' Swirling in the Balkans

David Holley / Los Angeles Times
Essay

Globalization and Hybridization

Frederic Jameson / World Cinemas, Transnational Perspective
Essay

Macedonia and European policy

Peter H. Matthiesen / South-East Europe Review for Labour and Social Affairs
Interview

Independence: Art & Activism / A Conversation With Milcho Manchevski

Keith Brown / World Literature Today
Interview

History in Dust

Roderic Coover / Film Quarterly
Interview

Close Up: Milcho Manchevsky

Nancy Keefe Rhodes / Dossier
Interview

On unhappy endings, politics and storytelling

Richard Raskin / P.O.V.
Review

Due Cowboy nel Far East (in Italian)

Paola Malanga / Ciak
Review

Surrealistyczny western wysokiej klasy (in Polish)

Maciej Andrzej Szydłowski / Stopklatka