Cycle
From 29.09. To 30.09.2017.
Weekend of the Film Archive
In Memoriam to Zoran Tadić
"All his life Zoran Tadić made crime films. In his crime opus there is a separate cycle of films devoted to revenge." (Juraj Kukoč)
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Films in cycle
Dreaming the Rose
(1986)
Directed by: Zoran Tadić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:
Valent, a worker, witnesses a crime. At the same time, he gets his hands on a large amount of money that would solve many of his family’s problems; they often cannot afford a decent meal. The film was screened at the 1986 Pula film festival, and many considered it that year's best.
color, 87 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 29.09.2017 AT 19:00
Osuđeni
(1987)
Directed by: Zoran Tadić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Dragan Ruljančić
Synopsis:
It is a story about an individual battle for justice. It revolves around an unjustly convicted man released from prison, who kidnaps the judge and the public prosecutor and takes them away to an isolated house far from the city... The film has all the traits of Tadić's handwriting, follows the principles set down in Ritam zločina (like all his eighties films), and is particularly esteemed by film lovers.
color, 104 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 29.09.2017 AT 21:00
The Man Who Loved Funerals
(Yugoslavia, 1989)
Directed by: Zoran Tadić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:
A story about a series of intriguing deaths that shook a small town near Zagreb (Samobor)... This was Tadić’s last film made in the eighties, and it established him as one of the most interesting and most fruitful authors of the 1980s.
color, 100'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 30.09.2017 AT 17:00
Eagle
(1990)
Directed by: Zoran Tadić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:
Radovan Orlak Orao fell off a skyscraper on the day when four of his old friends waited for him to celebrate his birthday. They had been friends since childhood, but now at middle age they see each other only occasionally. Faced with the fact that they actually knew very little about their friend’s recent life, they start meeting more regularly and try to find out the circumstances that led to Orao’s suicide or possibly even murder…
color, 35 mm, 85 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 30.09.2017 AT 19:00
Rhythm of a Crime
(Yugoslavia, Centar film Beograd, Televizija Zagreb, 1981)
Directed by: Zoran Tadić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:
In the Zagreb quarter of Trnje, old houses are being torn down to make room for concrete giants. The owner of a house on the list for demolition has a tenant obsessed with crime statistics, and his hobby is accurately calculating the possibility of the occurrence of new criminal deeds. His premonitions come true. Soon, he discovers an anomaly in the rhythm of crime and foresees his own death. It is a landmark film for the Croatian cinema of the eighties that became a cult hit. The film has engl...