IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India

COMPETITION
CINEMA OF THE WORLD
IFFI-2008
Serbia-Bosnia & Herzegovina
The Tour / Turneja
2008, 35 mm, Colour, 107 mins, Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian
Year 1993. The bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from
Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search
for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. Thrust into the heart of war,
wandering from warfront to warfront, meeting with Serbian, Muslim and Croatian
fighters, they manage to save themselves from all perilous situations thanks to the
quality that every actor must have - a childish passion for play. A few days later, after
having experienced all the horrors of war and having even been on the brink of death on a
few occasions, they return to their theatre as different people. The war had changed
them: they are no longer the innocent, child-like creatures who look forward to play but
people with a dark shadow cast over their souls.
Director
Goran Markovic
Screenplay
Goran Markovic
Cinematography
Radoslav Vladic
Editor
Snazana Ivanovic
Music
Zoran Simjanovic
Cast
Tihomir Stanic, Jelena Djokic, Dragan Nikolic, Mira Furlan,
Gordan Kicic, Josif Tatic, Slavko Stimac
Art
Veljko Despotovic
Production
Testament Films
Nebojšina 30/2
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
T: +381 11 30 87 87 3
F: +381 11 3236 215
Email: svetozarc@atelje212.co.yu
www.testament-films.co.yu;
Balkan Films
Milana Kranovica 4, Banja Luka,
Republika Srpska, Bosnia & Herzegovina
T: +381 63 801 30 84
F: +387 65 208 085
Email: tihost@eunet.yu
Festivals & Awards
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Serbia's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 81
Academy Awards (2009),
Montreal (Best Director, FIPRESCI award), Pusan
Son of Rade and Olivera Markovic, two highly-reputed Yugoslav actors, Goran
Markovic studied film directing (1965-1970) in Prague, Czechoslovakia at the Film
Academy (FAMU). He belongs to the so-called "Czech School" group of Yugoslav
directors, which include Goran Paskaljevic, Srdjan Karanovic, Lordan Zafranovic,
Rajko Grlic, Emir Kusturica. At the Academy he was taught literature by Milan Kundera
and film directing by Elmar Kloss. After graduating, Markovic started working for
television, directing documentaries and about 50 TV movies. The TV series Neobavezno
(Casual) is considered a hallmark from that period. His first feature film was the highlyacclaimed
Specijalno vaspitanje (Special education, 1976). Since then, he has made
acclaimed movies like Nacionalna Klasa (National Class, 1978), Majstori, majstori
(Jack's of All Trades, 1980), Variola Vera (1982), Tajvanska kanasta (Taiwan Canasta,
1985), Déjà vu (The Reflections, 1987), Sabirni centar (Meeting Point, 1989), Tito i ja
(Tito and Me, 1992), Urnebesna tragedija (Tragedy Burlesque, 1995), Poludeli ljudi
(Belgrade follies, 1997) and Srbija nulte godine (Serbie, Annee Zero, 2001). He has been
an active theatre artiste too.
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