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Metastases

METASTASES/ METASTAZE

Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2009., 84’

Director

Branko Schmidt

Cast

Rene Bitorajec, Franjo Dijak, Rakan Rushaidat, Robert Ugrina

Awards

PULA FILM FESTIVAL 2009-  BIG GOLDEN ARENA FOR BEST FILM (STANISLAV BABIĆ) , GOLDEN ARENA FOR BEST LEADING ACTOR (RENE BITORAJEC) AND BEST MASK (JASNA ROSINI-CRNOBRNJA)

After a year-long drug addiction treatment, Filip returns to Zagreb to meet up with his old friends – violent war veteran Krpa obsessed with football, junkie Dejo and warm-hearted Kizo, an alcoholic. Filip lives with his parents, can’t find work and spends most of the time at a local bar, getting drunk with his old gang, and slowly sees that he won’t make it if he stays there.

Branko Schmidt (Osijek, 1957) studied film and TV directing at Academy of Dramatic Art at University of Zagreb. 1988 directs his first long feature “Sokol Did Not Love Him”. Also directed “Đuka Begović”, “Vukovar: The Way Home”, “Christmas in Vienna”. His movie “The Melon Route” wins HDFK’s Octavian Award for best feature. “The Melon Route” was also awarded at Haifa, Eger (Hungary), Tetouan (Maroco), Cleveland, Dubrovnik and Montpellier festivals for best feature.

 

30.08. SUNDAY, 23.00., DANUBE BARGE