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BERLINALE 2016 Croatia / Serbia

Zrinko Ogresta travels to Berlin with On the Other Side

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- The Croatian director’s seventh feature film will screen in the Berlinale's Panorama section

Zrinko Ogresta travels to Berlin with On the Other Side
Ksenija Marinković in On the Other Side

On the Other Side [+see also:
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, the seventh feature film by Croatian director Zrinko Ogresta, will take part in the Berlinale's Panorama section. Ogresta is best known internationally for the Karlovy Vary titles Behind the Glass [+see also:
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interview: Ivan Maloca
interview: Zrinko Ogresta
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]
(2008), Washed Out (1995) and Here, which won the Special Prize of the Jury in 2003. 

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A co-production between Croatia's Interfilm and Serbia's Zillion Film, On the Other Side is the story of Vesna, a middle-aged visiting nurse in Zagreb. Quietly, she goes about her daily life of mundane chores: babysitting for her son, helping her daughter prepare for her wedding and so on. But then, out of the blue, she gets a call from her husband, Žarko, who left his family on the eve of the war in Croatia to fight for “the other side”, as a captain in the Yugoslav National Army. His reappearance after 20 years sends her carefully reconstructed life into a tailspin, endangering her new identity.

Ksenija Marinković (seen recently in Life Is a Trumpet [+see also:
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and A Good Wife [+see also:
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) and Serbian actor Lazar Ristovski (most famous for his role in Emir Kusturica's Underground, and recently seen in We Will Be the World Champions [+see also:
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and The Priest's Children [+see also:
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), also a co-producer of the film, play the main roles. Tihana Lazović (this year's acting revelation from Croatia with her role in The High Sun [+see also:
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interview: Tihana Lazovic
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), Robert Budak (Zagreb Cappuccino), Toni Šestan, Alen Liverić (Number 55 [+see also:
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) and Mate Gulin (A Letter to Dad) also star.

The script was written by Ogresta and Mate Matišić (The Priest's Children, No One's Son), who also composed the score with his son, Šimun Matišić. Branko Linta served as the DoP, and Tomislav Pavlić was the editor.

On the Other Side is handled internationally by Cercamon

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