Virgina (1991) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1991 · 101 mins · Serbo-Croatian

Directed by

Srđan Karanović

Starring

Ina Gogálová, Miodrag Krivokapić, Mirko Vlahović, Matija Prskalo, Nada Gaćešić-Livaković, Slobodan Milovanović

Set in a 19th‑century Serbian village on the Adriatic coast, the story explores a rigid patriarchal society that believes families lacking male heirs are cursed. When a wife delivers a fourth daughter, the father decrees she will be raised as a “Virgina,” a girl forced to live as a man, highlighting the community’s deeply harsh gender customs.