The ballad of the grandfather
Tittel Soldierlullaby
Director Predrag Antonijevic
Cast Marko Vasiljevic
Swedish distribution Blakan film fetsival
Rate masterpiece
First war world is one of the central point in history and it was one of the first time when human beiging realize that we were all coated. The official starting point was the murder of the hear to the Austo Hungarian empire by a Serbian Bosnian student in Sarajevo but there was so much more testion in between several country. The country that didn’t participate to the world like Sweden and the Nederlands didn’t participate for one reason for that. Now in a wonderful and super well-done movie by Predrag Antonijevic we see this period that with a light speed materialize for us. In the center of the story that is a series of flashback and show all the capacity of Natasa Drakulic as a script writer we see in the Bering how Stevan Jakovljevic well presented by Marko Vasiljevic come back to a battle feel in which the more numerous Austro_ Hungarian had slaughter the Serbina army. Marko Vasiljevic is may be a bit too old for this part the one of a biology professor Stevan Jakovljevic but the portrait is really great full of charisma and never above the line prissily like the cinematographer Milos Kodemo that succeed in making several picture tjat remain both on that time 1915 photography shoot but also the baroque painter Michelangelo Medrisi da Caravaggio mostly in the fight in the church. The editing by Filip Dedic mostly under the Austo Hungarian Attach on a Pontoon bridge is perfect like the best Hollywood movie but with bigger diversity that goes from very poetical and documentary like aspect of the life in the garrison to the best action sequences when the howitzer shoot in several scen. iN the beging we meet an other really sympatric character that is the colonel play by Ljubomir Bandovic but we will discover that he was really hard and in some way cruel. The tension and here Natasa Drakulic shows all her ability. In taking inspiration from some topic of the war movie is between him and another office Porucnik Aleksandar play by Vuk Jovanovic. He is a charming rather jovial young man that make war with empathizes. With this world I indicate the fact that he always put his man the soldier the fighter near him and his humanity. The fact that is point out even in some comical figure like Jankuli really well play by Marko Gvero a rather fat man that has learn how to catch food and speak about the former enemies. The Serbian society and we see thta also in the realtionship between Stavanos and his father Rados Bajic was really tirred about war and we con also see it in two minor figure the mother of Stavanos and the Sister paly by Tara Jevrosimovic. There is even if the world is stele mostly on the country side a great preses about civlan the normal society that are the first victim of the war. One drma in the drma and Alekader is thepistorn for all the drma is the one of the two brother Ivan oánd oberan play by Marko Pavlovski that are just playing thei falute. The hard and blody war sceen that are septacular but dirty as the poetry as a contrast. The film is a tribute to the land and to Serbian culture but doen’t show a negative view on the enemy and there are moment of Iddil like in the end. A compelt war movie that one should only see. I have had the fotune of meeting the scrip writer Natasa Drakulic that has answer to some of our question
Could you present a bit of your work for our reader and your relationship with the Nordic country
Well I was here in 2001 as a escheated student and I can see a lot of new person. My parents wanted me to study first political science and after I start study film on the practical point of view and Journalism. I live in Belgrade but mine town in former Yugoslavia that is now in Croatia. I can go back and have a house and still feel it like my home . This war experience that is quite typical for many Serbs is typical also in my work.
How is with the situation about woman and cinema in Serbia?
Woman isn film isn’t so easy several few year we have more and more woman. In Serbia I feel a bit alon it will be change there are new platform and social connection. It will be bather fro young generation; we had in the past few money and connection . Is important to never give upp 10 years ago there were so few woman in film. In the beginning I do several kind of series I have wrote every movie I want today I can say no Slovenia Croatia and Bosnai. We have a lot of story I work from my own inspiration. The soldier Lullabayy is a guy story. I have worked mostly on the youth TV now for 10 years. I worked than with the first Serbian criminal drama that is call “My father killer” it should have been only one season and it was five and now I will work with and other that is a series and soon we will be the frist to do a supernatural series with ghoast and medieum this is something totally new for Serbia and I guess will make a great rumor in media.
Could you tell us a bit of filming in Serbia?
Now is a good period also due to the international production that come here we are a good place for filming and has also won with town like Parague and Budapest ; we havea lot of oppurtunieties with this and some tax’s facilitation. We have film with Jonny Depps
Could you tell uus about your next project in movies way ?
We will make a film upon Gausti thyat was a concentration camp made by Hustasha nazist for mostely serbs we can say global the local story that is the way movie is a long time consumer we will be out og day .it wasn’t easier to work what happen there it wouldn’t be the easy film we having attack from Croatia and it is a different story and it is an other pro ject about child that died there. It would be easier. The movie will come this year in apil or Octore everything is over we had 300 person with uiss. It wasn’t easier we cry every day the camera was crying. The children were great. It is the first time about this kind of the problem we could reach our history for everyone. Some of my family member went there and it is so hard to see itr .
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We did the movie yesterday we spoke about it is a patriotically movie bounty its was a Balkan story and there is the same method I was born in Croatia
What about the Nordic film in Serbia and Balkan region?
Is quite Ok the television is not so famous I know Square a watch every crime series. I hope to have a collaboration the camera work is really very good they are a lot of foreran movie . it should be open mind to internet platform. There would be great everything will be in that .
Is writing for movie more difficult that write for TV?
Movie is definitely more difficult and it is a quite hard task for everyone . One have to think a lot and succeed in making a good story and is more me more complicate that tv serier or soap opera.
Do you work with cooperation
My next movie is in fact a cooperation between Bosnian Herzegovina and Great Britain is quite hard to make but we are making a really great and difficult movie?
Where do you see the future more in movie or in series ?
In both people will always se movie but intenet platform things like that will also be important and we will see more and more actors and actresses working oin series . I hope this will be a normal trend.
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