About the conflict of personal, corporate and state interests

Filming of the domestic film “The Rattlesnakes” has begun: About the conflict of personal, corporate and state interests

Filming of the film started last weekend in Belgrade Rattlesnakes directed by Nikola Ljuca, with Ivan Vuković, Milan Marić, Jasna Đuričić, Tarik Filipović in the main roles, and produced by the film company Biberche.

Rattlesnakes are a drama with elements of suspense thriller and melodrama, set in today’s Serbia. This movie story about personal, corporate and state interests that conflict with love, friendship and moral principles focuses on young people and their intimate space and choices, their personal decisions and moral principles, under which they will live and love in the capitalist order without grace.

On the occasion of the start of filming, director Nikola Ljuca said, “Writing the script together with Vuk Bošković and Staša Bajac, I knew that I wanted to direct this movie in such a way as to emphasize current social processes, contemporary people and their choices, and emphasize their primarily personal the decisions they make, which are conditioned by a ruthless capitalist order that leaves little room for humanity to all of us. Our heroes are caught in the vortex of a transition that lasts too long, a transition in which everything can be bought and where people are the cheapest commodity. They are left with a choice, like all of us anyway, to decide what they want to become: criminals or victims, or both.”

What is the movie about?

The main character Nađa (Ivana Vuković) is a former activist of an NGO for human rights, who now works as an assistant to Milanka (Jasna Đuričić), the director of “Magnolia”. This large corporation buys the factory of the former giant of the metal processing industry in a consortium with foreign investors, in order to turn it into arable land. Boris (Milan Marić), Nađa’s former longtime boyfriend and colleague from a research organization, returns from Italy to Serbia and starts working for Savić (Tarik Filipović), a businessman with political ambitions. After Nadja and Boris are connected again by work, they fall into a vortex of personal, corporate and state interests, and the fate and future of a large number of people will depend on the decisions of a few.

In the next four weeks, the film will be shot at selected locations in Belgrade and Kovin. According to producer Nikolina Vučetić-Zečević, we have an intimate, exciting, strong and brave film in front of us: “Rattlesnakes are a film about people with moral integrity who can’t find their way in the world of alienation, harsh consumerism, false and inviolable authorities and profit that swallows up all worldly values. The theme of the film Rattlesnakes deals with, it is not limited to Serbia and the current moment, it is universal. This is evidenced by the fact that, in addition to institutions in Serbia, the Film Center of Serbia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia and the City of Novi Sad, the film received the support of the largest supranational European fund MEDIA Creative Europe, the regional Italian fund Re-ACT, as well as six national film funds; The Film Center of Slovenia, the Croatian Audiovisual Center, the Film Agency of the Republic of North Macedonia, the Audio-Visual Center of the Republic of Srpska, the Film Center of Montenegro and the Greek Film Center.

Who is Nikola Ljuca?

Nikola Ljuca belongs to the generation of young promising directors. He completed directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and additional education at Sarajevo Talent Campus, Berlinale Script Station and Locarno Filmmakers Academy. His short films Thursday, Sergeant i Scenes with women, were shown at numerous international and domestic festivals, where they also won prizes. His first feature film Humidity had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Forum program in 2016, after which it opened the FEST and won most of the national film awards, and then participated in more than 20 international festivals. He is the director of the second season of the series Faith.

Promotion, Maja Medic

Biberche is a film company founded in Belgrade in 2007 by a couple of film professionals: producer Nikolina Vučetić Zečević and director Dejan Zečević. The films they produced were shown and awarded at the most prestigious festivals, such as Cannes, Venice, San Sebastian, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo and others.

The co-producers of the film are; Damir Teresak, Ana Grbac (Maxima Film, Croatia), Aleš Pavlin, Andrej Stritof (Perfo Production, Slovenia), Tomi Salkovski (Skopje Film Studio, North Macedonia), Zoran Maksimović (Palchica Productions, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Đorđe Vojvodić (Bitter Frames Production, Montenegro ), Yorgos Tsourgiannis (Horsefly films, Greece). The executive producer is Kristina Kljajić. In addition to Ivana Vuković, Milan Marić, Jasna Đuričić and Tarik Filipović, d Rattlesnakes also starring Boris Isaković, Miloš Lučić, Dragana Dabović, Milica Trifunović, Sunčica Milanović, Rade Maričić and Aleksandar Đurica. He is the director of photography Mladen Teofilović. He is a scenographer Kiril Spaseski and costume designer Ljiljana Petrović while the masker is Goran Ignjatovski. The film is shot in Serbia from July 12 to August 12, it will be edited in Croatia, the post-production of the image and sound will be in Slovenia, and the original music will be signed by the Greek composer Ted Regklis.

Source: BIZLife

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