Cycle
From 29.10. To 30.10.2020.
Kinoteka: Glazba i hrvatski film II
Films are in Croatian, without subtitles.
Entrance is free.
Films in cycle
Concert
(Croatia, 1954)
Directed by: Branko Belan
PHOTOGRAPHY: Oktavijan Miletić
Synopsis:
It is the story of a piano that changes owners over several decades. The piano causes an accident in which the girl Emma gets hurt. Branded by her injury, she waits in solitude for the end of war and the arrival of the man she loves… suddenly she gets a chance to fulfill all her dreams, but she begins to question – is it not too late?
b/w, 35 mm, 92'
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 28.10.2020 AT 18:00
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:
Wednesday 28.10.2020 AT 20:00
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:
Thursday 29.10.2020 AT 18:00
Kamenita vrata
(Croatia, Jadran film, 1992)
Directed by: Ante Babaja
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:
The main character is Dr Boras, a famous cardiologist, who is interested in the phenomena of life after life. He wrote a book on the subject but his colleagues and friends are skeptical and even make fun of him. We witness the reflections of a man who devoted his life to saving human lives and now wants to understand the riddle of merging of life and death. He also has a personal experience when his heart fails during jogging, and after that he is surprised by an encounter with the m...