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        • Monument to Michael Jackson

          • Country:
          • Serbia, Germany, Macedonia, Croatia, 2014
          • Group:
          • Serbian film
          • Duration:
          • 95’
          • Director:
          • Darko Lungulov
          • Screenplay:
          • Darko Lungulov
          • Cast:
          • Boris Milivojević, Nataša Tapušković, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Ljuba Bandović, Toni Mihajlovski, Branislav Trifunović, Mirjana Karanović
          • Festivals:
          • Cinematography:
          • Matijas Šening
          • Editing:
          • Dejan Urošević
          • Music:
          • Dejan Pejović
          • Producer:
          • Darko Lungulov, Snežana Penev
          • Production:
          • This and That/Papa Films
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        • Showing

          04. Mar | 12:00 | 250 RSD
          Dvorana Kulturnog centra

        • SYNOPSIS

          Marko is a daydreaming barber with a head full of ideas (rarely realized) and a marriage on the rocks. Disappointed by life, Marko’s wife Ljubinka refuses to give him another chance and is determined to leave their dying town for good. Marko decides to make a last ditch effort to save his crumbling relationship. Desperate, he comes up with an absurd proposal for bringing life back to the comatose community, thereby impressing Ljubinka. His novel idea is to attract tourism by replacing the old communist monument with a statue of Michael Jackson. Somewhat surprisingly, he gets the locals on board but, unfortunately, Marko’s plans don’t sit well with the mayor.…

           

          Darko Lungulov

           

          Darko Lungulov (born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) moved from his Serbian birthplace to New York in 1991 after the outbreak of civil war; there he graduated in film studies from the City College of New York. His medium-length documentary Escape (2004) was presented at a number of documentary festivals (e.g. IDFA and Leipzig). He debuted in features in 2009 with Here and There, which earned 20 awards at more than 50 international film festivals following its Tribeca premiere. Monument to Michael Jackson is his second feature.

           

          Filmography

          2014       Jednaki: segment Anđela / Equals: segment Andjela
          2014       Spomenik Majklu Džeksonu / Monument to Michael Jackson

          2009       Tamo i ovde / Here and There

           

          Festivals

          2014       Karlovy Vary, Pula, Sarajevo, Herceg Novi

           
          A Serbian town tries to jumpstart tourism in Darko Lungulov's sharply funny tragicomedy.

          Alissa Simon, Variety

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