Burlesque Tragedy
あらすじ
Belgrade, capital of former Yugoslavia. Although there is war nearby, a few hundred miles from the city, it's not often talked about, or at least not directly. It's seen in the media, particularly the misery and hunger that it brings, causing an increasing number of victims. On the face of it, everything seems normal, if somewhat strange… Nevertheless, war is there, in people's souls… A doctor, director of a Belgrade psychiatric hospital, decides to close the institution in protest against its inhumane conditions. Due to the rise of nationalism, civil war, Yugoslavia's general disintegration and United Nations sanctions, there is no longer any medication or food for the patients. All supplies go to the frontline… Vasilije, one of the patients, has an obsession: to marry Rajna. The doctor immediately announces to his patients that they're going to the ceremony. He closes the hospital and accompanies them through Belgrade's neighborhoods and streets. The doctor intends to take them back to their respective homes, or at worst, "put" them wherever someone will take them in. Everywhere they go, the patients will be cause for discoveries … for, at "normal" peoples' homes, life isn't exactly a bed of roses… Vasilije's family lives in a permanently stressful situation. Conflicts and fights are the daily grid for Milan and Ruza, Kosta and Julka, Vasilije's sons and daughters-in-law. 12-year-old Neven, Milan and Ruza's son, has been deeply affected by the home situation. When Vasilije finds his grandson, he has a hard time believing that the teenager was once the sweet boy who he'd last seen when Neven was three…Vasilije tries to tell him that he's an adopted child. At first, the child resists, then lets himself be caught in the trap and enters into the fascinating logic of madness. He begins to believe in his grandfather's crazy story. Just when the doctor renounces his libertarian utopia, deciding to bring the patients back to the hospital, a group of policeman overrun the institute, placing him under arrest. He's suspected of killing his assistant, Vera, whose body has been discovered in the river. The patients tell the story of what really happened: Tasa, the Bird, had wanted to steal Vera. In other words, they "helped" the nurse to climb onto the parapet, where she "flew away" forever… But the police demonstrate their cruel power. They teach the doctor what he should already know: mental patients are not responsible for their actions… and they bring everybody back to the hospital. During this time, police lights flashing and sirens screaming, Neven leaves the house. He's going to find a little girl, Irene, in the nearby orphanage. They take off together in a tram, heading towards an impossible future.
クレジット
監督 (1)
俳優 (11)
映画製作・配給会社 (4)
- 共同製作 : Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Multimex Films, Nova Televizia
- フランス国内配給 : LB Distribution
クレジットタイトル詳細 (7)
- シナリオライター : Dusan Kovacevic
- フォトディレクター : Racoslav Vladic
- Editor : Snezana Ivanovic
- 原作者 : Zoran Simjanovic
- Co-producers : Couedic , Jacky Ouaknine
- 報道担当（映画） : Thierry Lenouvel
- 装飾 : Veljko Despotovic
メディアギャラリー
技術面詳細
- タイプ : 長編映画
- ジャンル : フィクション
- サブジャンル : 心理ドラマ
- 言語 : セルビア語
- 出身 : ブルガリア, クロアチア, セルビア, フランス
- Original French-language productions : 不明
- 製作国 : 大部分フランス (ブルガリア, クロアチア, セルビア, フランス)
- 製作年 : 1997
- フランス公開 : 26/04/2000
- 上映時間 : 1 時間 35 分
- 経過状況 : 公開済み
- ニュメロ·デ Visa : 86.658
- ビザ発行日 : 02/01/1998
- CNC助成 : はい
- 生産のフォーマット : 35ミリ
- カラータイプ : カラー
ニュース＆アワード
映画祭でのセレクション (1)
受賞 (1)
About
Above all else, I wanted to try and explain to the world, and to myself, this thing called “Serbian madness.” What are these people like? How do their minds work? What goes on in their souls? Are the Serbs a normal people like any other, or are they possessed by some unique, apparently negative force that is more and more talked about these days? I also wanted to show all the tragic effects on people’s psyches of this ghastly war that has been tearing my country apart for so long.
Goran Markovic, Director
