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The White Suit

Yugoslavian candidate for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences OSKAR 1999-2000. award

World premiere - KANNES 1999

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Script and Director: Lazar Ristovski
Director of Photography: Milorad Glusica
Art Designer: Milenko Jeremic
Costumes Designer: Boris Caksiran
Sound: Nenad Vukadinovic
Editor: Petar Putnikovic
Original music: Srdjan Jacimovic
Make-up: Radica Todorovic
Executive Producer: Petar Ristic
Producer: Lazar Ristovski

CAST
Lazar Ristovski
Radmila Sogoljeva (Ucraine)
Dragan Nikolic
Velimir-Bata Zivoinovic
Danilo - Bata Stojkovic
Renata Ulmanski
Bogdan Diklic
Danica Ristovski
Branislav Popovic
Branimir Brstina
Nikola Kojo
Zoran Cvijanovic
Jovan Ristovski
Slobodan-Boda Ninkovic
Bojana Maljevic
Katarina Gojkovic
Sonja Kolacaric
Zdena Hurtecakova (Czeck Rep)
Milana Vranesevic
Nebojsa Milovanovic
Andrej Sepetkovski
Nenad Stojmenovic

Notes by Lazar Ristovski

"All that was shown in this film really happened" - says Lazar Ristovski - "but I wanted to raise the film a foot above the ground and charge it with a taste of surreal and poetic. Why? Because the audience today is much to burdened by the reality of life (especially in Yugoslavia) and it needs an embelished image of the world relying on the romantic passion, emotions, lust, poetics, chivalry, readiness to play games and tollerance".

All the characters in the film - regardless of their social, educational or cultural background - are selfaware and allow themselves to ponder on large issues like life itself, love, survival, existence, death, the endless circle, the passage of life and the imperfect nature of Mankind. They are not afraid to show their true feelings and true colors. The lead character goes one step further: he is not even afraid of death.

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The film encompasses a large galery of characters: soldiers, prostitutes, pimps, drunkards... but thera are no negative characters. All of them are positive - even the "bad guys". I have tried to make a film that will manage to keep a light smile on the face of every viewer, a film integrating simplicity and universality, a film that can be screened on all continents, a film not dealing with any "current" issue.

The general impression I would like the White Suit to inspire in the viewers is the impression of surreal but stil possible, of sad and charming, light and comical, but fatal and ominiscent.

A SHORT FILM MEMENTO

! The WHITE SUIT by Lazar Ristovski (produced by "Zillion film"), had its world premiere in 1999 at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival (May 12-23 1999) in the ""Critic's Week" program. The film directed by Lazar Ristovski was included in the official Cannes FF programe t h a n k s t o t h e s e l e c t i o n b y t h e d i r e c t o r o f t h e "Critic's Week" p r o g r a m - the renown french film critic Jean Roy, whose decision was hailed by the lovers of the seventh art.

! With a total of 9 screenings the had major success with both the viewers and the critics as witnessed by numerous articles published by all the leading dailies and specialiyed magayines.

! After the Cannes FF the WHITE SUIT had a successful encounter with the Italian public at the Cinema Roma theater in the Italian capital between on June 2-10, where the integral list of the "Critic's Week" was screened again.

! The film premiered on September 2 1999 at the Sava Center in Belgrade.

The film has been completely shot in Serbia and Montenegro.

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