You are here:

Hassan-Aga's Wife

Name: Hassan-Aga's Wife
Director: Miodrag 'Mića' Popović
Released: 1967
Duration: 81 min

Representation Score

5.0/10

Fair

1967

Director

Miodrag 'Mića' Popović

Runtime

81 minutes

Average Rating

No ratings yet

New Showbiz Analysis

Hasanaginica is a tragic drama that centers on the tension between individual intuition and patriarchal command. By adapting a folk ballad, the film explores the breakdown of domestic stability through a lens of subjective morality. The film's primary strength is its subversion of gendered expectations. The wife's decision to prioritize her own warning dream over her husband's summons provides a rare moment of women's ability to drive the story within a traditional setting. However, the film remains limited by its narrow focus. It lacks explicit markers of diversity and varied representation beyond the central marital conflict, resulting in a mid-range diversity profile.

Watch this, not that →

Category Breakdown

Does Hassan-Aga's Wife have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film focuses on a traditional marital unit. There is no explicit evidence of LGBTQ+ characters or non-cisgender identities within the narrative.

How does Hassan-Aga's Wife portray gender?

Fair

The protagonist demonstrates ability to act by refusing her husband's summons based on her own intuition. This refusal challenges traditional hierarchies of obedience and domestic submissiveness.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Hassan-Aga's Wife?

Fair

The story is rooted in a specific regional and ethnic context. It moves away from Western cinematic norms by focusing on a localized, non-Western narrative.

How does Hassan-Aga's Wife represent religion and culture?

Good

The film deconstructs traditional social contracts and patriarchal authority. It prioritizes the wife's psychological truth over the stability of the family unit.

Does Hassan-Aga's Wife include disability representation?

Minimal

The provided material contains no information regarding the portrayal of physical or mental disabilities.

Present on Screen

The protagonist demonstrates a significant role in driving the story by defying her husband's authority.
The narrative challenges traditional gender hierarchies and expectations of domestic obedience.
The film offers a non-Western perspective by engaging with regional folk traditions.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks explicit representation of LGBTQ+ identities.
There is no evidence of diverse racial or ethnic casting beyond the regional setting.
The narrative does not address disability representation.

Official Synopsis

Hassan-Aga’s wife waits at home for the return of her husband, long since departed for the war; but she refuses to go to him when summoned, because of a warning dream. On Hassan’s return, he throws her out of his house.

How are these scores produced? →