Cycle
From 02.12.2003. To 03.06.2004.
Program of films by Zvonimir Berković
DIRECTORS
Films in cycle
Roundabout
(Croatia, 1966 | Mjesto prikazivanja filma: Centar za kulturu i informacije Maksimir (ul. Lavoslava Švarca 18))
Directed by: Zvonimir Berković
PHOTOGRAPHY: Tomislav Pinter
Synopsis:
Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Feđi. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Feđa's wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters... Zvonimir Berković's debut film, the first and the only Croatian chamber film, the classic of Croatian cinema, whose film structure was built on the principle of the musical form rondo....
b/w, 94'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 02.12.2003 AT 17:00
A Trip to the Place of the Accident
(1971)
Directed by: Zvonimir Berković
PHOTOGRAPHY: Aleksandar Petković
Synopsis:
Psychological drama from contemporary life about a woman whom an accidental witness of a car accident informs that her husband was killed, but also convinces her that he had fell in love with her "even before the first glance"...
color, 94 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 09.12.2003 AT 17:00
Premeditated Love Letters
(Croatia, 1985)
Directed by: Zvonimir Berković
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:
Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…
color, digital restauracija, 95'
PROJECTION:
Monday 15.12.2003 AT 19:00
Countess Dora
(Croatia, 1993)
Directed by: Zvonimir Berković
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:
This is a film about the life of the first Croatian female composer, Dora Pejačević. The setting is the crazy twenties in Zagreb. On a rainy night, Karlo Armano, a cabaret artist and film amateur, meets Dora, an unknown provincial girl, and spends with her a night filled with magic. The next day, the girl is gone. Soon, he discovers that Cinderella is actually a princess – countess Pejačević... Film won four Golden Arenas at the festival in Pula. In the book '101 years of film in Croat...