Section: Feature Film Competition

CRNCI

THE BLACKS

Zvonimir Jurić, Goran Dević
Croatia, 2009, 75 Min
Kinorama

A Croatian elite paramilitary unit at the end of the war in 1995: three soldiers are killed shortly before a ceasefire is announced. Streaks of blood in the provisional headquarters, located in the garage of a secluded office building, tell of the dirty work that was carried out here during the war. An explosives expert joins up and almost immediately generates mistrust within the unit. His task is to help blow up a dam in order to flood a nearby village. Meanwhile the cessation of hostilities has already been announced via radio.

The surviving men are, because of the death of their comrades and the unexpected end to the war, doubly irritated. The proverbial skeletons in the closet and the impending, peace-induced disbandment of the unit are at the forefront of everyone's mind. Helplessness and fear of social responsibility lead to a mutual suspicion with fatal consequences: the search for the bodies of their comrades-in-arms becomes a kind of catharsis, after which the soldiers ultimately find the real enemy within themselves.

Filmed in a time loop and caught in few takes, the psychogram of this group of men offers up a remarkably nuanced image of the fraught relations between the protagonists, characterised as they are by mutual aggression, self-doubt and moral dilemmas.

Filmformat
35 mm | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Zvonimir Jurić, Goran Dević
Kamera
Branko Linta
Ton
Dubravka Premar
Schnitt
Vanja Siruček
Ausstattung
Mladen Ožbolt
Musik
Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjević
Darsteller
Ivo Gregurević, Franjo Dijak, Rakan Rushaidat, Krešimir Mikić, Nikša Butijer, Emir Hadžihafizbegović
Produzent
Ankica Jurić Tilić
Produktion
Kinorama
Co-Produktion
HRT
Kontakt
Kinorama
Ankica Jurić Tilić
Štoosova 25
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Tel: +385.1.231 67 87
Fax: +385.1.231 67 88
ankica@kinorama.hr
www.kinorama.hr
Zvonimir Jurić, Goran Dević

Zvonimir Jurić, Goran Dević - Zvonimir Jurić – born 1971 in Osijek, Croatia. Graduated from The Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb in Directing in 1999. Has since then produced numerous documentary films and television series, as well as his first feature film in 2003.

Goran Dević – born 1971 in Sisak, Croatia. Studied Law, Archaeology and Film at The Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, he has to date produced several documentaries and short films. CRNCI is his feature film debut. 

Movies
(Zvonimir Jurić)
NEBO ISPOD OSIJEKA (1996, doc)
JURIĆ: TVRĐA 1999 (1999, doc)
CRNCI SU IZDRAŽALI, A JA? (2000, doc)
ONAJ KOJI ĆE OSTATI NEPRIMIJEĆEN (2003)
(Goran Dević)
JESAM LISE ZAJEBO? (2004, short)
UVOZNE VRANE (2004, short)
KNIN 2004 (2004, short)
NEMAM TI ŠTA REĆI LJEPO (2006, short)
SRETNA ZEMLJA (2009, doc)