WORLD PREMERE
DIRECTOR Branko Ištvančić
SCREENPLAY Josip Mlakić
DOP Branko Cahun
EDITING Veljko Segarić
ART DIRECTOR Zvonko Sarić
COSTUMES Felicita Glavaš
MUSIC Dalibor Grubačević
SOUND Ivica Drnić
MAKE-UP Bianka Žugelj
ACTRESS IN LEADING ROLE Sanja Radišić
ACTOR IN LEADING ROLE Aleksandar Bogdanović
ACTRESSES IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Jelena Perčin, Nela Kocsis, Rada Mrkšić, Jelena Jokić
ACTORS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Slaven Knezović, Vlatko Dulić, Slobodan Ćustić, Boro Stjepanović, Miralem Zubčević, Đorđe Kukuljica, Ivan Brkić, Nikša Kušelj, Darko Milas, Mile Ognjenović, Bora Nenić
RODUCER Irena Škorić
PRODUCTION Artizana film
CO-PRODUCERS Goran Radman, Petar Jevtić, Almir Šahinović, Zoran Tasić
CO-PRODUCTION Croatian Radiotelevision – HRT (HR), Kinematografska kuća (RS), HEFT (BA), Dari films (FR)
When the Croatian War of Independence ended, Bosnian Croats whose villages had been destroyed in the fighting were forced to relocate. They were rehoused in the homes of Croatian Serbs who had left Croatia. Now, the Serbian owners are returning and the Croatian residents are facing an uncertain future. Somewhere in this powder keg atmosphere, an old man called Jozo, a Bosnian Croat, disappears without a trace. The police officer Filip, who also lives in a Serbian house, is entrusted with the case. Everyone believes that a returning Serb has murdered Jozo, but Filip launches a detailed investigation, determined to be unbiased and fair, even though he has his own ghosts from the past to deal with.
Branko Ištvančić (1967, Subotica) graduated film and TV direction in 1999 at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. Deeply enrooted in the Croatian documentary tradition, he pays special attention to the humane, but also humoristic, treatment of his subjects (Wellman, The Cormorant Scarecrow). His debut The Ghost in the Swamp (2006) marked the comeback of feature-length films for children which have not been made by the Croatian film industry for the last twenty years. Films: From Grain to Painting (2012), Album (2011), The Ghost in the Swamp (2006), Wellman (2003), The Cormorant Scarecrow (1998).