Passion According to Matthew

feature-length feature film, 1975

DIRECTED BY: Lordan Zafranović

Passion According to Matthew

CAST:
Boris Cavazza (Mate) Žarko Radić (Luka) Alicia Jakiewicz (Ora) Božidarka Frajt (Mare) Mirko Boman (predsjednik boksačkog kluba) Ivan Prebeg (boksački trener) Hermina Pipinić (Rahela)

SCRIPT:
Mirko Kovač,
Lordan Zafranović

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Karpo Aćimović-Godina

Synopsis:
Mate is a worker in a shipyard in Split, having come from the Dalmatian inlands where he still has family. In the big city, he tries to achieve success as a professional boxer. Mate’s younger brother Luka, whose main preoccupation in life is sex, dreams about moving to Germany. He soon starts a relationship with a young girl, Ora, whose only other sexual experience was with her stepfather, whom she believed to be her real father…

color, 35 mm, 104 min