Section: MIDNIGHT MADNESS

SUMMER TEETH

SUMMER TEETH

Dražen Žarković
HR/ME, 2024, 100 Min

Absurdist horror-comedy about a zombie apocalypse on a remote Croatian island. Vatroslav, a Zagreb-based student on the run from a bad employer, travels to the island of Mala Glava to help a friend's grandmother harvest a bumper crop of tomatoes. But instead of field work he is faced with a sudden epidemic of cannibalism - The result of a series of experiments to isolate the nationalism gene that was aborted many years ago ...

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Performance

2024-11-10 | 21:00
Stadthalle

The island of Mala Glava does not exist in Croatia. The witty filmmakers populate this fictional place with deliberately cliched but immensely charming and colorful characters. Among them there are relaxed cops, used to the fact that nothing happens around them, and local old-timers, who keep the memory of Yugoslavia, and young people working part-time at the resort, and, of course, naive foreign tourists, attracted by the azure sea and the hot Adriatic sun. In a way, this is Croatia in miniature. Unsurprisingly, the island also hides a military secret. During the Yugoslav era, it was home to a military base where experiments were conducted to isolate the nationalist gene. Whether they succeeded or not, the eternal student Vatroslav will have to find out the hard way. Director Dražen Žarković cleverly plays with Balkan stereotypes, piles on the jokes and places his characters not so much in dangerous as in ridiculous and absurd situations. But behind all the fun lies a serious warning: nationalism and xenophobia is a straight path to hell.

Text: Ksenia Reutova

10.11.2024 | 21:00 | Stadthalle (original version with english subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

 

Drehbuch
Ivan Turković Krnjak, Maja Todorović
Kamera
Saša Petković
Ton
Ognjen Popić
Schnitt
Saša Karakaš Šikanić
Ausstattung
Tajana Čanić Stanković
Musik
Mate Matišić
Darsteller
Momčilo Otašević, Ivana Gulin, Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov, Milica Janevski, Ljubiša Savanović, Donat Zeko
Produzent
Damir Terešak, Ana Grbac, Nikolina Vučetić Zečević
Produktion
Maxima film
Co-Produktion
Đorđe Vojvodić, Kristina Kljaić, Saša Petković, Branislav Milatović
Dražen Žarković

Dražen Žarković - Dražen Žarković (1970). Graduated film and TV directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He directed 5 feature films : Ajmo žuti!,Trešeta, Zagonetni dječak, Alka i Moj dida je pao s Marsa. Also he directed many Croatian TV series: Odmori se, zaslužio si, Stipe u gostima, Mrkomir.

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