Synopsis:

A young girl, a member of Young Communists, comes into a family of an “Ustasha” chief to work as a maid. She pretends to be illiterate. Her task is to get her hands on important documents – a list of spies sent by the enemy to the freed territory. This task is very dangerous, and she has to be especially careful because of Elza, Ustasha’s older daughter and a fiancée of a German officer, who doesn’t trust her. Sasa, the younger daughter, is still a child and she tries to teach the ma...

b/w, 35 mm, 98'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 22.04.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This film follows the fate of a woman accused of embezzlement. The investigator doesn’t believe that she did it for herself and begins to investigate her past… This is an engaged social drama with criminal elements.

b/w, 35 mm, 100'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 29.04.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

A young assembler, Ivo Bajsic, commits suicide, jumping off of a skyscraper in the middle of town. His suicide is the biggest news on front pages and causes interest in his fate. But nobody knows why the young man killed himself. Through flashbacks we learn the hard life of the young man. The leading role is played by Bekim Fehmiu, one of the rare Albanian film actors in the cinematography of former Yugoslavia.

b/w, 35 mm, 86'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 06.05.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This is a story about four young delinquents from different social environments who decide to rob a store, each for his own reasons. They were inspired by films and crime stories and carry out the robbery according to a detailed plan…

color, 35 mm, 94'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 13.05.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This is the story of a strange character who permanently awaits something… This film expresses the director’s modern sense of humor of absurdity. Ivo Skrabalo, in his book 101 godina filma u Hrvatskoj, wrote that this film is a “Balkan variation of a theme from Waiting for Godot, in which persiflage didn’t quite work out”. The film can be regarded as an experiment and the leading man, Ivica Vidovic, is outstanding.

color, digital restauracija, 100'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 20.05.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

Journalist Vlado Kovac works in a daily political newspaper but has problems with his superiors. Soon, he has a quarrel with the chief editor who refuses to publish his article about the workers’ strike. Kovac is convinced that there is no danger in revealing the truth and that his editors, in order to keep their positions, want to stay in good relations with everyone. His wife leaves him and he begins to think that he is fighting in vain… This film won the Golden Arena for the best di...

color, 35 mm, 110'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 27.05.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This is a family story of a former Spanish soldier and a partisan, a retired ambassador. The film revolves around a meeting and a conversation between the respectable ambassador and a worker who comes to his house to fix the heating. This is a family drama that shows the reality of contemporary life and social relationships.

color, digital restauracija, 96'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 03.06.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This is a story of a few clerks in a company who use their positions to achieve their own material security. We learn the reasons that lead to unlawful actions, embezzlements, and personal dramas. The film revolves around a polemic dialogue in one of the offices…The film won the Golden Arena at the Pula film festival.

b/w, 35 mm, 96'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 10.06.2003 AT 17:00