BELO SE PERE NA DEVETDESET
WHITES WASH AT NINETY
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When her mother lies weak in bed, pubescent Bronja is first and foremost annoyed. Upon learning that her mother is going to die however, the young girl is devastated. As a young adult, Bronja also develops cancer and is determined to celebrate her 21st birthday.
The bestselling film adaptation of Bronja Žakelj's autobiographical novel Whites Wash at Ninety begins at the end of the Tito era and leads up to the collapse of Yugoslavia and Slovenian independence. While Bronja is a fighter who continually strives to embrace life, her father remains a notorious complainer and communist-hater. Yet nevertheless he, too, occasionally shows emotion, such as when he mourns the passing of his wife and worries about his daughter. Director Marko Naberšnik succeeds, with great attention to period details, in evoking the time surrounding Slovenia’s independence and skilfully portraying the different attitudes to life held by different generations. And the powerful soundtrack also captures these times. This is especially the case in "Še je čas" by Martin Krpan, a hit from the late 1980s, which goes:
“There’s still time to find out,
Which is better: to stay or to go.
There’s still time to find out,
What is right and what is wrong..
Maybe one day I’ll knock down the fence,
Maybe one day I’ll get away from here.
(A new face will move into the house…)
Only the dogs remain the same.”
Text: Jörg Taszman
MI 05.11. I 13:00 I GLAD-HOUSE I original version with English subtitles + simultaneous German translation
SO 09.11. I 18:00 I OBENKINO I original version with English subtitles
Zakelj Bronja, Marko Nabersnik
Maksimilijan Sušnik
Maja Moravec
Lea Cok, Anica Dobra, Jurij Zrnec, Tjasa Zeleznik
Biberche, Black Cat Production, Kinorama, Protos Film, Quasar
Marko Naberšnik - Marko Naberšnik is a Slovenian director and screenwriter. He was born in 1973 in Maribor. He began his film career as a journalist and cameraman, after which he attended the New York Film Academy (NYFA) in 1996. There, he made the short feature film The Beginning, which helped him pass the entrance exam for the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television at the University of Ljubljana. He graduated in film and television directing in 2002 and completed his master's degree in 2010.
Today, he works as a professor at the Department of Film and Television at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, and as a director of feature and documentary films and television shows. He has directed more than 600 television shows, series, and documentaries. His feature debut, Rooster Breakfast, is the third most-watched Slovenian film of all time.
In 2012, his second feature film, Shanghai, was also a major success. At the A-category Montreal World Film Festival (36th edition), it was selected as one of 17 films in the official competition program. The festival selectors made their final selection after viewing 3,000 films. In the most prestigious section, Shanghai received the award for Best Screenplay.
In 2014, Naberšnik completed his third feature film project, The Woods Are Still Green (Die Wälder sind noch grün), which once again earned him a spot at an A-category festival. The film was accepted into the official competition program of the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival. A total of 1,099 films from 112 countries competed for inclusion in the festival’s main program. The Woods Are Still Green was a co-production between Slovenia and Austria, financed entirely through private funding without support from public film funds. It was theatrically released in both Slovenia and Austria. The film received positive reviews from critics and was well received by the prestigious American publication The Hollywood Reporter. To date, Naberšnik has directed five feature films for theatrical release.
2007 Petelinji zajtrk (Rooster's Breakfast) - feature
2012 Šanghaj (Shanghai Gypsy) - feature
2014 Gozdovi so še vedno zeleni (The Woods Are Still Green) - feature
2017 Slovenija, Avstralija in jutri ves svet (Slovenia, Australia and Tomorrow the World) - feature
