Regie:
Ognjen SviličićCamera:
Stanko HercegMuziek:
Michael BauerActeurs:
Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Armin Omerovic, Marie Bäumer, Saša Anočić, Daria Lorenci, Senad Basic, Jens Münchow, Tvrtko Juric, Orhan Güner, Mesud Dedovic (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Ibro and his 13-year-old son Armin undertake a journey from their home village in Bosnia to Zagreb, only a few hundred kilometers away. Armin has been invited there to audition for a German film production about war in the former Yugoslavia. The possibility of getting work raises hopes of better times, but on arrival in the five star hotel in the Croatian capital, they realize that they've entered a world that seems like another planet to them and whose rules of the game they don't know.
The characters develop their human warmth in halting loops - achieved by a remarkable pair of actors. Their nonverbal communication is manifest in small gestures, minimal looks, and discreet body language - from the awkwardness they display faced with a savvy production secretary to the disputes they have while waiting in the hotel foyer. Director Ognjen Svilicic overlays the initial general sense of melancholy with human sympathy and the subtle comedy of the situation, giving us a picture of culture clash. Throughout the process, father and son remain the morose characters that they already were - proving to be sovereign enough not to fall into the globalized permanent smile of the "new Europe".
(Berlinale)
Acteurs
Emir Hadzihafizbegovic
Joegoslavië
Beste films:
Quo vadis, Aida? (2020)
Dobro ustimani mrtvaci (2005)
Vader gaat op zakenreis (1985)
Armin Omerovic
Joegoslavië
Beste films:
Armin (2007)
Put lubenica (2006)
Marie Bäumer
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Napoléon (2002) (serie)
Die Fälscher (2007)
Armin (2007)
Saša Anočić
Joegoslavië
Daria Lorenci
Joegoslavië
Beste films:
Niciji sin (2008)
Ustav Republike Hrvatske (2016)
It's Hard to Be Nice (2007)
Senad Basic
Joegoslavië
Beste films:
The Perfect Circle (1997)
Nafaka (2006)
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Jens Münchow
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Armin (2007)
Ein Freund von mir (2006)
Gladbeck (2018) (serie)
Tvrtko Juric
Joegoslavië
Beste films:
Armin (2007)
Josef (2011)
Adios Amigos (2016)
Orhan Güner
Turkije
Beste films:
Die Fremde (2010)
Gegen die Wand (2004)
Armin (2007)
Mesud Dedovic
Joegoslavië
Beste films:
Armin (2007)
Tu (2003)
Takva su pravila (2014)
Vanja Matujec
Joegoslavië
Beste films:
Armin (2007)
Šuma summarum (2010)