Sokol ga nije volio
Sokol Did Not Love Him
A village in Slovenia. Benoš, son of the estate owner Šimo and a member of the German minority takes home leave from his service in the Wehrmacht whilst war rages around him. Šimo wants to keep hold of the family property, it's not so simple however when Germans and Yugoslavs, Ustaši and partisans, Stalinists and Titoists wage war against one another. The village also suffers a rupture. With particular attention paid to interpersonal tensions the director sketches a latent atmosphere of threat and harassment which constantly threatens to boil over into war.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Fabijan Šovagović, Branko Schmidt
Goran Truljak
Dubravka Premar
Ladislav Markić
Zoran Mulić
Fabijan Šovagović, Filip Šovagović, Ivo Gregurević, Kruno Šarić, Nada Subotić, Suzana Nikolić, Mato Ergović, Ivo Fici
Zagreb Film
Vlaška 70
10 000 Zagreb
Croatia
zagrebfilm@zagrebfilm.hr
www.zagrebfilm.h
Branko Schmidt - born 1957 in Osijek, Croatia. Studied directing ot the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Shot his debut cinema production SOKOL CA NIJE VOLIO in 1988, winning the award for best debut at the Pula Film Festival in the process. Has since then won a number of awards at Pula, including three Golden Arenas for PUT LUBENICA and METASTAZE respectively. In recognition of his current work LJUDOZDER VECETARIJANAC, Croatia's submission for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, he was the recipient of five further awards. As well as feature films he has also shot documentary films, children's TV shows and directed theatrical productions.
SOKOL GA NIJE VOLIO (1988)
DJUKA BEGOVIC (1991)
VUKOVAR SE VRAĆA KUĆI (1994)
BOŽIĆ U BEČU (1997)
SRCE NIJE U MODI (1999)
KRALJICA NOĆI (2001)
PUT LUBENICA (2006)
METASTAZE (2009)
LJUDOŽDER VEGETARIJANAC (2012)