The Forest

Thursday, 10.09.2020. at 20:10

Redatelj: Siniša Dragin

Producent: Siniša Dragin, Predrag Jakovljević

Zemlja proizvodnje: Romania, 2014.

Trajanje: 72'

Croatian premiere

KRATAK SADRŽAJ

In 1947, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito visited, for the first time, Romania. Its communist regime gave him, as a present, a painting from a great Romanian artist Ion Andreescu: "The Leafless Forest". In the 60s, a young art critic, Radu Bogdan, decided to elaborate a monograph dedicated to the great painter, including reproduction of the painting given to Tito. After countless problems, he obtained the permission to photograph the painting. The moment they took the painting off the wall, they found - a microphone. Somebody was spying on Tito...

Biografija redatelja

SINIŠA DRAGIN graduated The Film and Theatre Academy, Bucharest in 1991 and worked since then as a cameraman for Reuters. Due to his immediate contact with contemporary stories, Dragin headed at first towards documentaries, filming two shorts, The sorrow of black gold (1994) and Burning sun over Tichilești (1995). In 1995 he distinguished himself also by the short feature The Rain, which won an APTR award (The Romanian Association of Television Professionals), a Prix Italia and the Directing Award in Costinești. If the first feature film for television, Long journey by train, got him several screenplay awards and the main APTR award, in 1998, his second film, Everyday God Kisses Us On The Mouth, won three directing awards and the Tiger at Rotterdam International Film Festival. He went back there in 2011 with If the seed doesn’t die, winning the Dioraphte award, decided by the public among the movies financed by Hubert Bals Fund. In recent years, he returned to documentary, directing along with Alina Mungiu Pippidi Where Europe Ends (2009), while a third action film, The Pharaoh (2004) was starring in the leading role one of the most impressive Romanian actors, Ștefan Iordache.

ISTRA FILM predstavlja HISTORY FILM FESTIVAL

Voditelj programa i direktor BERNARDIN MODRIĆ

Producenti TIHA MODRIĆ & DEJAN BOJC

Video produkcija ROBERT KALČIĆ & IGOR MODRIĆ

Designer ZLATKO GRGIĆ

Photografije RINO GROPUZZO

Grafičko i web oblikovanje GRAFIK, Rijeka