St. George Shoots the Dragon (Serbian
Свети Георгије убива аждаху) is an Serbian
WW1 war drama. The movie premiere was slated for March 11, 2009
[IMDb]. The movie's director is
Srđan Dragojević and the screenplay writer is
Dušan Kovačević.
With a budget of around €5 million
[Ubismo aždahu, Press, September 4, 2007], it was one of the most expensive Serbian movie productions to date. Some of the funds have been donated by the governments of
Serbia (€1.55 million) and
Republika Srpska (€750,000) who deemed the movie to be of national importance.
Kovačević script had already been made into a theater play that was staged to great success in Belgrade's
Atelje 212 and
Novi Sad's
Serbian National Theatre.
