Dust (2001)

Director
Milčo Mančevski

Main cast
Joseph Fiennes; David Wenham; Adrian Lester; Rosemary Murphy; Nikolina Kujača

Genres
Action, Drama, Romance, Western

Description
Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.


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