The Scent of Rain in the Balkans (TV series)

Plot

Cast and characters

• Mirka Vasiljević as Blanka "Blanki" Salom
• Aleksandra Bibić as Rifketa "Riki" Salom
• Kalina Kovačević as Nina Salom
• Tamara Dragičević as Laura "Buka" Salom
• Marija Vicković as Klara Salom
• Stefan Buzurović as Isak "Atleta" Salom
• Ljiljana Blagojević as Estera Salom
• Predrag Ejdus as Leon Salom
• Siniša Ubović as Marko Korać
• Goran Navojec as Škoro "Ignjo" Ignjatić
• Igor Damjanović as Miloš Ranković
• Milan Vasić as Danijel Papo
• Stipe Kostanić as Ivo Valić
• Srđan Karanović as Vladeta Dragutinović
• Dragan Petrović as David
• Aleksandra Alač as Didi Valić
• Jelisaveta Seka Sabljić as Nona Salom

  Differences from the novel

• In the series, there is an elderly Blanki as a narrator.
• In the novel, Leon and Estera have seven children, five daughters and two sons. However, the character of Elijas was written out of the series.
• In the novel, Buka was in love with Danijel when she married him. In the series, she was previously in love with David, a man much older than her, who does not exist in the book. Buka would later fall in love with her husband.
• In the series, Blanki saves Marko from getting executed by causing him diabetes complications by sending him a sweetened rice pudding. In the novel, she simply helps him get away from the Ustaše jail.
• In the series, Blanki senses her mother's death and suddenly abandons a dinner with Marko and some friends; while in the novel, there are no details on how Estera died.
• In the series, the Salom family initially lives in house with a large garden. In the book, they lived in an apartment.

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