Out of the Past 2013 / Okupacija, 27. slika / Czech Republic, Croatia 2013
Croatian filmmaker Pavo Marinković offers up a lively documentary mosaic which follows the career of Lordan Zafranović from his early days on set and his studies at Prague’s FAMU to the worldwide success of the still contentious film Occupation in 26 Pictures and the period that necessitated artistic compromise during the communist era.
Very few films would be able to excite the kind of passion generated by Lordan Zafranović’s Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978). This artistic metaphor for the occupation of the director’s native Dalmatia during the Second World War screened in competition at Cannes; it also took away an award from the Pula festival and received rave reviews both in the former Yugoslavia and beyond the country’s borders. Nevertheless, the film incensed the influential Zagreb-based youth magazine Polet, and a number of Dubrovnik inhabitants continue to see it as a propaganda film with fabricated details by an author they regard as a traitor. "If a film doesn’t cause a scandal, it shouldn’t have been made in the first place,” says Zafranović as he strolls around Prague, where he currently lives and where he also studied at the end of the 1960s. Croatian filmmaker Pavo Marinković offers up an intriguing and lively documentary mosaic which follows the career of this controversial figure, from his early days on set and his success on the world stage, to the period that necessitated artistic compromise during the communist era.
71 min / Color, HD CAM
World premiere
Director Pavo Marinković
/ Screenplay Pavo Marinković
/ Dir. of Photography Mario Marko Krce, Aleš Blabolil, Jan Šuster
/ Music Hrvoje Crnić Boxer
/ Editor Dubravko Slunjski
/ Producer Julietta Sichel, Pavo Marinković
/ Production 8Heads Productions, Mitropa
/ Contact 8Heads Productions s.r.o.
www: www.occupation-27thpicture.com
Pavo Marinković (b. 1967, Zagreb, Croatia) studied scriptwriting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He later swapped the theatre for television and worked for Croatian TV in 1996-2005. In 2006 he wrote the script for Tressette – A Story of an Island (Trešeta), about life on a small Dalmatian isle; that same year he directed the film with Dražen Žarković. The movie was screened at more than thirty festivals – including Bucharest, Bergamo, Naples – and won a series of awards. In 2009 he wrote and directed Love Life of a Gentle Coward (Ljubavni život domobrana), which garnered three awards at Pula and the Special Jury Prize at the Houston festival; it was also shown at a number of other festivals.
8Heads Productions s.r.o.
Bílkova 868/10, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 602 292 971
E-mail: [email protected]
Julietta Sichel
Producer
Pavo Marinković
Film Director
Lordan Zafranović
Film Director
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