Where to Watch Sworn Virgin (2015) in the US

What it's about

Hana Doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being wife and servant which is imposed on the women in the inhospitable mountains in Albania. She appeals to the old law of the Kanun and swears her eternal virginity thus becoming a "sworn virgin". She turns into a man, takes up a rifle and becomes Mark, Mark Doda. It is in exchange for this sacrifice that Hana is allowed to be considered at the same level as other men. Her battle does not only mean that she must rebel against what destiny has been writing on her body for centuries, but she must also reject, in name of this rebellion, every form of love. A refusal that becomes her prison. After more than ten years spent in solitude in the mountains as a man, she becomes brutish and she transforms to survive the hardship, the cold and misery, until something returns to awaken her again... Hana decides to change life and painstakingly regain her body. She knows that leaving the mountains is the price she will have to pay to be able to go back to living. A journey drags her away from her arid land, a journey that will mean she will have to revisit her past and exhume memories and feelings that she was made to bury in oblivion. Following a path that is a continuous and subtle crossing of two different and distant worlds, of the past and the future. In a modern Milan metropolis, she struggles to leave her man's clothes and learns to be woman. She experiences the heady sensation of physical contact with others, and she finds dear and beloved people that life had taken from her and there opens an unexpected and forbidden possibility of love. Mark not only returns to being Hana, but she is also able to piece the two souls back together that for years have lived inside her body and she is reborn as a new, free and complete.

Cast and crew

Director

Laura Bispuri

Writer

Elvira Dones, Laura Bispuri, Francesca Manieri

Starring

Alba Rohrwacher, Emily Ferratello, Lars Eidinger

Details

Release date

Mar 19, 2015

Language

Albanian, Italian

Country

Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France

Box office

$4,636

Awards

11 wins & 18 nominations total

Where to Watch Sworn Virgin (2015) in the US — common questions

Where to watch Sworn Virgin in the United States?

Sworn Virgin is available with a subscription, free with ads, free with a participating library card, or to rent in the United States. Watch the movie with a subscription on Metrograph (HD) and Strand Releasing (HD). Watch the movie free with ads on Tubi TV. Watch the movie free with a participating library card on Kanopy. Rent the movie on Apple TV Store and Prime Video.

Can I stream Sworn Virgin or do I have to rent it in the United States?

Watch the movie with a subscription on Metrograph (HD) and Strand Releasing (HD). Rent the movie on Apple TV Store and Prime Video.

Can I watch Sworn Virgin for free in the United States?

Watch the movie free with ads on Tubi TV. Watch the movie free with a participating library card on Kanopy.