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Movie by GORAN PASKALJEVIĆ Crew: Director: GORAN PASKALJEVIĆ Screenplay: FILIP DAVID, GORAN PASKALJEVIĆ Original story: GORAN PASKALJEVIĆ Music composer: ZORAN SIMJANOVIĆ Director of photography: MILAN SPASIĆ Editor: PETAR PUTNIKOVIĆ Art director: TIJANA MARIĆ Costume designer: JELENA ANDJELKOVIĆ Sound engineer: VELIBOR HAJDUKOVIĆ Sound supervisor: BRANKO NESKOV C.A.S. Production Companies: ZEPTER INTERNATIONAL, NOVA FILM (Belgrade), ZILLION FILM (Belgrade), WANDA VISION (Madrid) Produced in collaboration with: RADIO TELEVISION OF SERBIA, SERBIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND MEDIA Produced by: Goran PASKALJEVIĆ, Lazar RISTOVSKI Associate Producer: Jose Maria MORALES Running time: 95 mins Format: converted to 35 mm International Distribution: BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL Cast: LAZAR RISTOVSKI: Lazar JASNA ŽALICA: Jasna (Mother) JOVANA MITIĆ: Jovana DANICA RISTOVSKI: Director of the Centre for Handicapped Children BODA NINKOVIĆ: Man with the rose NENAD JEZDIĆ: Lawyer LAV GERSMAN: White magician EROL KADIĆ: Scrap merchant LJILJANA JOVANOVIĆ: Milan’s mother FEDJA STOJANOVIĆ: Neighbour JOVAN RISTOVSKI: Lazar’s cousin VLASTA VELISAVLJEVIĆ: Fisherman DUŠAN JANIĆIJEVIĆ: Old refugee ANA PUDERKA: Wife of Lazar’s cousin AZRA ČENGIĆ: Woman in the taxi RATKO MILETIĆ: Scrap worker

Synopsis Serbia, Winter 2004. Lazar returns home after ten long years of absence. He is a different man today: having regained his liberty, he has decided to free himself from the heavy burden of his past and to start a new life in a country that also seems to want a better future. The apartment where he formerly lived is now occupied by Jasna, a single mother who is raising her autistic 12-year-old daughter Jovana. Refugees from Bosnia, they have been squatting in Lazar's apartment for some time now. Jasna, whose husband never accepted their daughter's autism and abandoned them, also wishes to turn the page on a difficult past. Since mother and daughter have nowhere else to go, Lazar doesn't have the heart to make them leave. Little by little, among these three beings marginalized by society, a special kinship will develop… Executive producer ZILLION FILM

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