CROATIAN PROGRAMME
ONCE WE WERE GOOD FOR YOU
DIRECTOR: Branko Schmidt
COUNTRY: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
YEAR / DURATION: 2021. • 72’
GENRE: drama
WORLD PREMIERE
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Sandra Antolić, Ognjen Sviličić, Branko Schmidt
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dario Hacek
- EDITOR: Hrvoje Mršić
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Ivan Ivan
- COSTUME DESIGN: Vedrana Rapić
- SOUND: Ivan Zelić
- SCORE: Damir Avdić
- MAKE UP: Jasna Rossini
- VISUAL EFFECTS: Denis Golenja
- SPECIAL EFFECTS: Branko Repalust
- LEAD ACTOR: Rene Bitorajac
- SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Nela Kocsis
- SUPPORTING ACTORS: Slaven Knezović, Rakan Rushaidat, Milivoj Beader, Nikša Butijer, Paško Vukasović, Goran Navojec, Dražen Šivak
- PRODUCER: Stanislav Babić
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: TELEFILM d.o.o.
- CO-PRODUCTION: Oktavijan – filmska udruga, Mostar (Bosna i Hercegovina)
- DISTRIBUTION: Blitz
Trailer
Synopsis
25 years from the Homeland War, Croatia is far from the ideal of the then veterans, now disgruntled men silenced with pensions. Impoverished, depopulated, corrupt. A few war veterans are brought back together by an idea of a Museum of Homeland Thanksgiving in the old Paromlin building in Zagreb city centre. As construction has been halted, the veterans take over Paromlin. They respond to the police with threats of gas cylinders, and to the special forces with threats of weapons. An ex commander promises them a new location for the Museum, but they are played once again. The young men who took to defending the veterans, deeply disappointed by the way the authorities are treating the men who created Croatia, turn to the extreme right.
About the director
Branko Schmidt (Osijek, 1957) graduated in film and TV directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. He is an warded director and has won numerous acknowledgments. He has directed many feature and documentary films and TV series. Select filmography: Sokol Did Not Like Him (1988), Đuka Begović (1991), Vukovar: The Way Home (1994), Christmas in Vienna (1997), The Old Oak Blues (2000), Queen of the Night (2001), The Melon Route (2006), Metastases (2009), Vegetarian Cannibal (2012), Ungiven (2015), Agape (2017).
Screening
- Arena – 18.07
21:30
- Kino Valli – 20.07
16:00
