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Indigo Kristal

Indigo Crystal

Luka Mihailović
RS , 2023, 105 Min

A man wants to get back into society. 30-year-old Vuk gets out of prison earlier than expected, but little has changed in the hood. As he tries to get his life back on track, he encounters resistance – from below and from above. The Serbian social thriller with rapper flair and authentic suspense became a major success in its country of production.

Director Luka Mihailović shot his feature film debut in grainy black and white, which gives the plot authenticity: an ex-con who wants to stop his younger brother from pursuing the same criminal career as him. He “made the main character, Vuk, someone who returns to a society that he no longer belongs to because he was in prison for eight years and now goes out into the world outside, returns to his residential area, to his neighborhood and in doing so... finds a situation in which he cannot cope," says lead actor and co-producer Miodrag Radonjić.

Because of course his old friends and their new friends are still stuck in the same shit as he was back then: drugs, blackmail, trafficking and a corrupt police force. In the end, it is the police who puts obstacles in his way to becoming a better person – a wife has already been found, future plans for fruit and wine growing have been made – because ultimately everything has to be kept under control. Four days later it's all over, Vuk becomes a sacrificial lamb. A star cast (Miloš Biković, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Jovana Stojiljković, Miloš Timotijević, Miodrag Radonjić, Vuk Kostić) and hip rap let this first film shot in Šabac, central Serbia, became one of the most successful Serbian films of 2023 so far.

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Text: Bernd Buder

 

The film will be shown in the Stadthalle in the original language with English subtitles and simultaneously translated into German. Headphones are available free of charge against a deposit in the cinema foyer.

The film will be shown at Obenkino in the original language and with English subtitles. No translation into German!

Drehbuch
Luka Mihailović
Kamera
Vladimir Đurić, Vladimir Milivojević Boogie
Schnitt
Matija Đukanović
Musik
Damjan Nedelkov, Nikola Bugarčić, Luka Broćić, Nikola Bukvić
Darsteller
Miodrag Radonjić
Denis Murić
Nina Janković
Miloš Petrović-Trojpec
Nikola Breković
Milan Čučilović
Produzent
Miloš Avramović, Miodrag Radonjić
Produktion
RTS, Režim, Archangel Studios
Luka Mihailović

Luka Mihailović - born in 1997, he entered Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) in the class of Professor Darko Bajić in 2016. Indigo Kristal was his debut feature movie.

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