Tilva Roš
Tilva Rosh
Serbia, 2010, HDcam, 102'
directed by Nikola Ležaić
screenplay Nikola Ležaić
cinematography Miloš Jaćimović
sound Danijel Daka Miloševic
editing Nikola Ležaić
cast Marko Todorović, Stefan Đorđević, Dunja Kovačević, Marko Milenković, Nenad Stanisavljević, Nenad Ivanović, Filip Maksimović, Miloš Petrović, Nenad Miladinović
producer Uroš Tomić, Mina Đukić, Nikola Ležaić
production Film House Kiselo Dete, T +381 27 51 230, E office@kiselodete.com
world sales Visit Films, T +1718 31 28 210, E al@visitfilms.com
In the town where there used to be the largest copper mine in Europe – now transformed into the largest crater in the Balkans – a story about friends in their first summer after finishing secondary school unfolds in a mix of true
characters and imaginary backgrounds. Their freedom is in skating, the taking of jackass videos and selfdestruction.
Stefan and Toda are spending their summer in the town of Bor, in eastern Serbia, after graduating from secondary school. The days of careless teenage life are slowly coming to an end. Stefan leaves to study in Belgrade, whereas Toda has to find a job. When Dunja arrives from France on holiday, their friendship bonds begin to loosen.
Serb filmmaker and screenwriter Nikola Ležaić drew inspiration for his first feature film from a one-hour video entitled Crap – Pain is Empty, shot by Marko Todorović-Toda and Stefan Đorđević in the years 2005–2006, in which with their colleagues from the skateboarding team Kolos they perform masochistic stunts á la Jackass. Tilva Roš (2010), a drama about growing up with subtle influences of Gus van Sant, Larry Clark and Harmony Korin, is therefore to a large extent based on real-life events. Through non-professional actors and shaky camera shots incorporated by Ležaić into the film, he gives a convincing portrait of a nihilistic young generation, totally indifferent to the social shock to the community caused by the privatisation of a copper mine, and yet who are suddenly confronting a turning point in their own lives and don’t know how to move on. Despite the fact that the political aspect of the film remains constantly subtle, Tilva Roš is also a portrait of a contemporary transition society, in which housekeepers become sales agents and trade unions strike inefficient compromises, as well example of the global impact of Western (popular) cultural production.
“I remembered my own attitude from 10 years earlier, when I also lived in that same small town, and realized that it wasn’t much different from theirs – it was all about fun. I remembered how everything was much simpler; social rights, health insurance, politics…those were all terms from some other, boring dimension. So I wanted
Tilva Roš to be about that – waking up the conscience you don’t want to wake up, finding out about injustices you don’t care about, assuming social roles when you don’t want to participate, and about the futile struggle to save that carefree teenage world from any changes.”(Nikola Ležaić)
Nikola Ležaić
Nikola Ležaić was born in 1981 in Serbia. He graduated in film directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He is the co-founder of the comics group Smog and a member of the literary movement Metasinkrizam. Ležaić is also the author of numerous award-winning documentaries and short films. In 2010, he made his feature debut, which was presented the Heart of Sarajevo award and the prize for the Best Lead Actor at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Schedule:
Serbia, 2010, HDcam, 102'
directed by Nikola Ležaić
screenplay Nikola Ležaić
cinematography Miloš Jaćimović
sound Danijel Daka Miloševic
editing Nikola Ležaić
cast Marko Todorović, Stefan Đorđević, Dunja Kovačević, Marko Milenković, Nenad Stanisavljević, Nenad Ivanović, Filip Maksimović, Miloš Petrović, Nenad Miladinović
producer Uroš Tomić, Mina Đukić, Nikola Ležaić
production Film House Kiselo Dete, T +381 27 51 230, E office@kiselodete.com
world sales Visit Films, T +1718 31 28 210, E al@visitfilms.com
In the town where there used to be the largest copper mine in Europe – now transformed into the largest crater in the Balkans – a story about friends in their first summer after finishing secondary school unfolds in a mix of true
characters and imaginary backgrounds. Their freedom is in skating, the taking of jackass videos and selfdestruction.
Stefan and Toda are spending their summer in the town of Bor, in eastern Serbia, after graduating from secondary school. The days of careless teenage life are slowly coming to an end. Stefan leaves to study in Belgrade, whereas Toda has to find a job. When Dunja arrives from France on holiday, their friendship bonds begin to loosen.
Serb filmmaker and screenwriter Nikola Ležaić drew inspiration for his first feature film from a one-hour video entitled Crap – Pain is Empty, shot by Marko Todorović-Toda and Stefan Đorđević in the years 2005–2006, in which with their colleagues from the skateboarding team Kolos they perform masochistic stunts á la Jackass. Tilva Roš (2010), a drama about growing up with subtle influences of Gus van Sant, Larry Clark and Harmony Korin, is therefore to a large extent based on real-life events. Through non-professional actors and shaky camera shots incorporated by Ležaić into the film, he gives a convincing portrait of a nihilistic young generation, totally indifferent to the social shock to the community caused by the privatisation of a copper mine, and yet who are suddenly confronting a turning point in their own lives and don’t know how to move on. Despite the fact that the political aspect of the film remains constantly subtle, Tilva Roš is also a portrait of a contemporary transition society, in which housekeepers become sales agents and trade unions strike inefficient compromises, as well example of the global impact of Western (popular) cultural production.
“I remembered my own attitude from 10 years earlier, when I also lived in that same small town, and realized that it wasn’t much different from theirs – it was all about fun. I remembered how everything was much simpler; social rights, health insurance, politics…those were all terms from some other, boring dimension. So I wanted
Tilva Roš to be about that – waking up the conscience you don’t want to wake up, finding out about injustices you don’t care about, assuming social roles when you don’t want to participate, and about the futile struggle to save that carefree teenage world from any changes.”(Nikola Ležaić)
Nikola Ležaić
Nikola Ležaić was born in 1981 in Serbia. He graduated in film directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He is the co-founder of the comics group Smog and a member of the literary movement Metasinkrizam. Ležaić is also the author of numerous award-winning documentaries and short films. In 2010, he made his feature debut, which was presented the Heart of Sarajevo award and the prize for the Best Lead Actor at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Schedule:
- Saturday, 11. 6., 12.00, ART KINO ODEON
- Saturday, 11. 6., 23.00, Open-Air Cinema MANZIOLI
