The Liberation of Skopje

Osloboduvanje na Skopje

For his directorial debut, Croatian-born actor Rade Šerbedžija teamed up
with his son Danilo to make a film adaptation of Slovenia-based Serbian
theatre director and playwright Dušan Jovanović’s play, The Liberation of
Skopje, whose original stage version was produced in 1980. In 1995, London’s
Riverside Studios made a British version featuring Vanessa Redgrave.
Set in World War II Skopje (now the capital of Macedonia) at the time of
occupation by German and Bulgarian troops, the story is told through the
eyes of an eight-year-old boy whose father has joined the partisans and
mother has become involved with a German officer.
In a story exploring the cruelty, poverty and suffering of war, young Zoran
witnesses his Jewish friend Renata Rossman and her family being taken to
a concentration camp but keeps his hope as he knows his uncle Gjorgjija
(Šerbedžija) is a partisan battling the Nazis.

  • Year:
    2016
  • Runtime:
    111 min.
  • Country:
    Macedonia, Croatia, Finland
  • Director:
    Rade Šerbedžija, Danilo Šerbedžija
  • Screenplay:
    Dušan Jovanović, Rade Šerbedžija, Danilo Šerbedžija
  • Dir. of Photography:
    Dejan Dimeski
  • Music:
    Tuomas Kantalinen, Vlatko Stefanovski
  • Editor:
    Nicolas Gaster
  • Cast:
    D. Todosovski, R. Serbedžija, M. Nousiainen, L. Serbedžija, S. Stojanovska, N. Glogovac, P. Mirčevski, D. Lilić, P. Arsovski
  • Production:
    Partysans, Lijeni Film, MP Film Production, Art Films, F&ME
  • Festivals:
    Pula 2016, Helsinki 2016

Schedule:

11.11.2016 19:00 Kino Nostalgia

About the Director:

Rade Šerbedžija

A Croatian theatre and cinema actor, director and musician, Rade Šerbedžija (1946, Bunić, Yugoslavia) is one of the most popular Yugoslavian actors of the 1970s and 1980s. He rose to international fame thanks to supporting roles in Hollywood productions such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, Mission: Impossible II and most recently, The Legend of Hercules

About the Director:

Danilo Šerbedžija

Danilo Šerbedžija (1971, Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian film director of Serbian ethnicity. His debut feature–length film, 72 Days (2010), was selected as Croatia’s bid for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.