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Somebody else's America
Genre: Social film
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Short description:
The story of emigrants in New York, more precisely in poor part of Brooklyn,
of Serb Baja and Spaniard Alfonso and their tragicomic efforts
to fit so-called New World. Bajo works illegally by day, and by night
helps Alfonso at the bar. He lives at Alfonso's place with a small
rooster from Yugoslavia. The rooster's crowing at dawn awakens homesickness
in Alfonso's blind moher, and Bajo's longing for his three
children, taken care of by his mother, far away, somewhere on the
Serbian-Montenegrian border, not realizing that they are already on
their way for America. During that trip, Bajo's younger son loses his
life in mythical river, Rio Grande. His older son fits new life conditions
perfectly. Impractical ones, old mothers, middle-aged sons
and lost love will vanish in unreal world of American illusions.
Additional information: Producer: Stefi 2 - Germany, in cooperation with Pandora Cinema - Frankfurt;
helped by Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe, Film Fonds
- Hamburg, Hamburger Filmbiro, Canal + - Paris, The European Co -
Production Fund - Great Britain, Lightworks Edition Systems - London,
Guisana Ltd., Singidunum - Belgrade, RTV Belgrade.
Miljen Kljakovic
cooperated on scenography.
Producer: Mact Productions, Pariz,
Intrinsica Films, London,
Lichtblick Filmproduktion, Hamburg,
Pandora film, Frankfurt,
RTV Beograd
Writer: Gordan Mihic
Music: Andrew Dickson
Cinematographer: Yorgos Arvanitis
Production design: Wolf Seesselberg,
Miljen Kljakovic (Kreka)
Costume design: Charlotte Holdrich
Country of origin: Srbija
Film editing: William Diver
Duration: 95 minutes
System:
Widescreen, color
Premiere: 19.4.1995. |
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