Jugoslavija, moja dežela In preproduction Q4 2027

Yugoslavia, My Fatherland
  • Fiction Film
  • s.d.
  • Slovenia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia

Synopsis

Thirty-three-year-old Vladan Borojević, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts, lives a normal life with his girlfriend Nadja, until one evening he sees a soldier in a photograph who looks like his late father. He types his father's name into an internet search engine and suddenly everything changes for Vladan. For almost twenty years Vladan was convinced that his father, a newspaperman for

Thirty-three-year-old Vladan Borojević, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts, lives a normal life with his girlfriend Nadja, until one evening he sees a soldier in a photograph who looks like his late father. He types his father's name into an internet search engine and suddenly everything changes for Vladan. For almost twenty years Vladan was convinced that his father, a newspaperman for the Yugoslav People's Army, had died in the war, but it turns out that he is alive. What's more, General Nedeljko Borojević is accused of war crimes and has been hiding from the international court in The Hague for years. Vladan lived in Pula as a child, but at the outbreak of the war, the family was transferred to Belgrade, where his father went off to war and Vladan and his mother fled to Slovenia. Shortly afterward, his mother told him that his father had died in the war, but she was lying. Determined to contact his father and find out the truth about him, Vladan is forced to contact his estranged mother, Duša, who has started a new family in Ljubljana. Vladan manages to find out from Duša Nedeljko's address in Brcko, from where Nedeljko last wrote to her, and although Duša is convinced that Nedeljko has long since disappeared from that address, Vladan decides to travel to Brcko. At the same time, Vladan learns that Nadja is pregnant, but with everything that is happening to him, he can't quite seem to grasp it. Nadja wants Vladan to stay by her side, but he decides to go to Bosnia anyway. During a tour of the apartment, Vladan finds Nedeljko's unsent letter to Duša. But shortly after leaving his father's former apartment, Vladan finds himself tied up and locked in the boot of a car. When the trunk is finally opened, Vladan finds himself in a deserted place by the river, with three men by his side, who see him as an unwanted snoop and want to liquidate him. Even decades after the end of the Yugoslav war, some people are willing to kill to hide the truth about it, but Vladan is determined to find his father, whatever the consequences.

Director

Goran Vojnović

Director's statement

War crimes committed by our fathers do not become obsolete, they do not disintegrate along with the countries and they do not fade away with the ideas in the name of which they were committed. War cri

War crimes committed by our fathers do not become obsolete, they do not disintegrate along with the countries and they do not fade away with the ideas in the name of which they were committed. War crimes are not forgotten along with the names of war criminals and their victims, when societies discover the magic of forgetting, war crimes do not die along with the victims, their relatives and descendants. War crimes fill the air, flow into rivers and soak into the soil, until they finally enter our blood.

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Writing

Goran Vojnović
screenwriter
Aleksandar Popovski
screenwriter
Stefan Arsenijević
script consultant

Direction

Goran Vojnović
director

Production

Boštjan Ikovic
producer
Robert Naskov
co-producer
Miloš Ivanović
co-producer
Ivana Vojvodić
co-producer

Cinematography

Miloš Srdić
director of photography

Production design

Marco Juratovec
production designer

Costume design

Jelena Proković
costume designer

production

Arsmedia
production
Kino Oko
co-production
Set Sail Films
co-production
Tuna Film
co-production
Eutopiafilm
co-production
MB Grip
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NuFrame
co-production
Zvokarna
co-production
Filmski studio Viba film
in collaboration with
Slovenski filmski center - SFC
co-funding
Ustvarjalna Evropa
co-funding
Alternative title
Yugoslavia, My Fatherland (English)
Production countries
Slovenia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia

Technical data

Aspect ratio
1,85:1
Colour
Colour
Screening formats
digital DCP
FPS
24

Budget

All financial information is obtained from official sources. I.e. producers or organizations which provided the financial support.

Grants
Slovenski filmski center - SFC
Javni razpis za sofinanciranje realizacije slovenskih igranih filmskih in avdiovizualnih projektov – 2024
Comitee: Jasna Krajinović, Boris Palčič, Čedomir Kolar Explication

Scenarij je nastal na podlagi zelo uspešnega romana z istim naslovom, kar je že samo po sebi pozitivno dejstvo, saj se slovenski film ne spoprijema prav pogosto s slovensko literaturo. Struktura zgodbe je čvrsta, tekoča, napeta. Liki, čeprav kompleksni, so jasno izrisani in prav konfliktna razmerja med njimi poganjajo zgodbo in ustvarjajo suspenz. Režijski koncept izpričuje izostren pogled v ključne gradnike filmskega jezika. Vse, od gibanja kamere, montaže, uporabe zvoka in glasbe, do dela z igralci je podrejeno tekoči pripovedi. Avtor sicer prepričljivo pojasni pomen uporabe t.i. flashbackov, a je potrebno vseeno premisliti o njihovi pogostosti in njihovi vlogi. Mnogi prispevajo k izgradnji odnosa med Vladanom in Nedeljkom, spet drugi pa so morda preveč opisni in po nepotrebnem zaustavljajo tok zgodbe.

2024
source: Slovenski filmski center
Slovenski filmski center - SFC
740,000.00 EUR
Filmski studio Viba film
-
in kind
Slovenski filmski center - SFC
Redni letni javni razpis za sofinanciranje razvoja scenarija na področju slovenskega celovečernega igranega, dokumentarnega ter animiranega filma ne glede na dolžino trajanja za leto 2017
Comitee: Žanina Mirčevska, Ida Weiss, Jaroslav Skrušny, Slobodan Maksimović (alternate) Explication

Scenarij temelji na uspešnem istoimenskem romanu in dokaj zvesto sledi razvoju mitske zgodbe o sodobnem Telemahu, ki išče očeta Odiseja, ki so ga vojne posrkale vase in ga odpeljale v neznane tuje svetove. To je zgodba o sinu, ki se mora soočiti s strašljivo resnico o lastnem očetu, vojnem zločincu, zgodba o mladem fantu, ki iskanje po temnem labirintu družinske zgodovine plača z izgubo svoje sedanjosti, in hkrati zgodba o državi, ki je zaradi nepremostljivih zgodovinskih, kulturnih, etničnih, verskih, razvojnih, političnih in gospodarskih razlik razpadla v krvavi vojni in s svojim razpadom v brezno potegnila tudi generacije sinov in vnukov udeležencev vojnih spopadov.
Treatment kaže na solidno dramaturško zasnovo z jasno prepoznavno osnovno fabulativno nitjo, žanrsko napetostjo in suspenzom, z jasno profiliranimi nosilnimi liki in odnosi med njimi. Ocena scenaristov je podana na podlagi prepoznavnosti in odmevnosti opusa avtorjev, ki je razviden iz priloženih referenc v vlogi.

2017
source: Slovenski filmski center
Slovenski filmski center - SFC
6,000.00 EUR

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