Huddersfield

Original movie title:
Huddersfield
Country:        
Serbia , 2007., 95 min
Director:
Ivan Živković
Cast:
Goran Šušljik, Nebojša Glogovac, Vojin Ćetković, Josif Tatić, Jelisaveta Sablić
Awards:
1st Film Festival of Serbia 2007
Best screenplay


42. Filmski susreti Niš 2007.
Grand Prix and Audience Award (Nebojša Glogovac)
Best Leading Actor (Goran Šušljik)
Best Supporting Actor (Vojin Ćetković)
Best Actress - FIPRESCI Award (Jelisaveta Seka Sablić)

Summary:

Story is set in a small town in Serbia. Rasha is thirty, lives with his alcoholic father and trying, and failing, to make ends meet by giving literature lessons to teenage girls and hosting a program on the local radio, presenting new books and interviewing authors. Ivan, a promising judoist in his teenage years, had since had a history of neurosis, psychotic episodes, hospitalization, heavy medication, involvement in various occult groups and practices, prior to having been baptized in the Orthodox Church.

Doole is a wannabe yuppie. The monotony of their lives is interrupted by arrival of Igor, who has lived in Huddersfield since the beginning of the nineties, and this is the first time he's come to visit since. They all get together in the evening, and what begins as a cheerful high school reunion party of close friends with a lot of catching up to do, turns into an emotional roller coaster of reminiscing, dark humor, bitterness, uncontrollable laughter, anger, grim soul searching.

Biography

Ivan Živković, known for directing hit tv serials 'Pozorište u kući' and 'Mile vs tranzicija', based his film on the hit stage play 'Huddersfield'. This is his second feature film. In 2001 he directed short feature 'Remote control'. He worked as assistant director in the Serbian 90's hit films 'Pretty Village, Pretty Flame’ and ‘The Wounds’.

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