AMBRELA
WHAT IS A MAN WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE?
DIRECTOR: Hrvoje Hribar
COUNTRY: Croatia
YEAR/DURATION: 2005. • 109′
comedy, drama
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Renato Baretić, Hrvoje Hribar, Ivica Ivanišević, based on the novel by Ante Tomić
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Silvio Jesenković
- EDITOR: Ivana Fumić
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Tanja Lacko
- COSTIMOGRAPHY: Blanka Budak
- SOUND: Bojan Kondres
- SCORE: Tamara Obrovac
- MAKE UP: Tina Jesenković
- VISUAL EFFECTS: Aleksandar Faraguna
- CAST: Zrinka Cvitešić, Leon Lučev, Ivo Gregurević, Jelena Lopatić, Bojan Navojec, Marija Škaričić, Ivica Vidović, Jelena Miholjević, Dražen Kühn, Krešimir Mikić, Stojan Matavulj, Branimir Vidić, Filip Radoš, Ilija Zovko
- PRODUCERS: Mirko Galić, Hrvoje Hribar
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: FIZ d.o.o, Hrvatska radiotelevizija, Hrvatski filmski savez, Vizije SFT
- DISTRIBUTION: FIZ d.o.o.
Synopsis
Smiljevo, a picturesque village in the Dalmatian Hinterland. Learning that her husband, a guest worker in Germany, was killed in a fall at a construction site, young widow Tatjana falls mute with grief for a full 13 months. When she finally speaks again, she uses the money from her husband’s insurance to buy a bare karst hill from an old village woman, despite her sister Ljubica’s disapproval. A year and a half later, the alignment of the new motorway is set to go right over the hill, and Tatjana becomes the richest eligible woman in the area. She realises she has fallen in love with the young local priest Stipan, and Marinko, a rough returnee from Germany, comes back to the village with his daughter Julijana. The likeable haiku poet Stanislav falls in love with Julijana, and the military unit led by father Stipan’s twin brother, general Ivica, comes into Smiljevo…
Festivals and awards
Pula Film Festival 2006 – Golden Arena for Best Actress, Golden Arena for Best Music, Golden Gate of Pula
Sarajevo Film Festival 2005 – Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress (Zrinka Cvitešić)
Trailer
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About the director
Hrvoje Hribar
(Zagreb, 1962) studied film and TV directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and worked as a film critic for a short while. He garnered attention with his medium-length student film Prestanite jesti (1987), and distinguished himself with the TV film Croatian Cathedrals (1991-1992). He then directed his debut feature The Tranquilliser Gun (1997). He directed the medium-length docu-fiction Once There Was a Man (2001), TV series New Age (2002), and his feature What Is a Man Without a Moustache? (2005).
Screening
- AMBRELA – SUNDAY 14.7.2024.
21:30
FREE ENTRANCE
