The White Lions

Director's explication

This is a story about us, our neighbors and our acquaintances. We all somehow thought that we would be living better and that we will be earning more. I have no intention of making a political, engaged and bitter film, although I'd know how to do just that.
This will be a warm film, with no negative heroes, although there might have been some. This will be a film whose main heroes are time, society and the situation in which the characters end up in, only to rely on unjustified optimism, so characteristic of the mentality of the people living in this part of the world, to curiously rise to the surface and grab on to the straw of salvation, which is often just one big nothing. This is what is comical in the movie.
What will be politically and humanely involved in this story, is the hero's sensation - and consequently and hopefully that of the viewers too - that many of our lives have failed. That unrequited illusions will just have to wait - not only for better times, but for another life. This feeling of sadness that I will try to inspire in the hearts of the viewers is the precious essence of this story. Sadness is caused by failed lives. The heroes of this story are not unhappy, but rather downcast. Not tragic, but rather lost.
Criticism of the society - inherent to this story - can not be avoided. Still, it will come as an echo of recent years and events, a the group of workers on strike, trailing lazily like a snake between the scenes and the heroes of the story, will act as a permanent connection to reality. And reality might be called "Beggar's Opera 2010".
Maybe this will be the real title of the film.

However, at the end - two young people express their love and the lead character Bela, tells her boyfriend Gruja that she's pregnant. A new life with new people might bring a better future for all. We just were not good enough.
A group of dissatisfied workers marches-by carrying signs. One of them ends the scene and the film.

IN THIS LIFE WE WERE HAPPY, IN SOME OTHER WE WILL BE RICH