Synopsis
Belgrade, capital of former Yugoslavia. Although there is war nearby, a few hundred miles from the city, it's not often talked about, or at least not directly. It's seen in the media, particularly the misery and hunger that it brings, causing an increasing number of victims. On the face of it, everything seems normal, if somewhat strange… Nevertheless, war is there, in people's souls… A doctor, director of a Belgrade psychiatric hospital, decides to close the institution in protest against its inhumane conditions. Due to the rise of nationalism, civil war, Yugoslavia's general disintegration and United Nations sanctions, there is no longer any medication or food for the patients. All supplies go to the frontline… Vasilije, one of the patients, has an obsession: to marry Rajna. The doctor immediately announces to his patients that they're going to the ceremony. He closes the hospital and accompanies them through Belgrade's neighborhoods and streets. The doctor intends to take them ba...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Compagnie des Films, Trois Lumières Productions
- Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Multimex Films, Nova Televizia
- French distribution : LB Distribution
Full credits (7)
- Screenwriter : Dusan Kovacevic
- Director of Photography : Racoslav Vladic
- Editor : Snezana Ivanovic
- Author of original work : Zoran Simjanovic
- Co-producers : Didier Couëdic, Jacky Ouaknine
- Press Attaché (film) : Thierry Lenouvel
- Production Designer : Veljko Despotovic
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Production language : Serbian
- Coproducer countries : Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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Awards (1)
About
Above all else, I wanted to try and explain to the world, and to myself, this thing called “Serbian madness.” What are these people like? How do their minds work? What goes on in their souls? Are the Serbs a normal people like any other, or are they possessed by some unique, apparently negative force that is more and more talked about these days? I also wanted to show all the tragic effects on people’s psyches of this ghastly war that has been tearing my country apart for so long.
Goran Markovic, Director