My Beautiful Country
Filmfest 2012
(Die Brücke am Ibar)
Germany 2012
Original version with German subtitles
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Albanian, Serbian)
World Premiere
Director: Michaela Kezele
Section: New German Cinema
The Kosovo War, 1999. Albanians are fighting Serbs, Serbs are fighting Albanians. Neighbours have become enemies. Friends are killing each other. Danica, a young Serbian, lives with her two sons Danilo and Vlado in a small Serbian-Albanian village on the river Ibar. Her husband was killed in the fighting and she is in mourning. When Ramiz, a critically injured UCK soldier, seeks shelter in her home, she is forced to make a decision: turn him over to the Serbian militia or try to save his life? Danica and Ramiz are practically neighbours, since he lives on the Albanian side of the river near the hospital where she gave birth to her children. Now they are enemies. By helping him she is endangering her life and the lives of her children. They fall in love but their fragile happiness is threatened by her jealous neighbour Jelena. Danica slowly realizes that there is no way she can escape the effects of war.
Cast: Zrinka Cvitesic, Misel Maticevic, Andrija Nikcevic, Milos Mesarovic, Danica Ristovski
Credits
Screenplay: Michaela Kezele
Director of Photography: Felix Novo de Oliveira
Film Editor: Andre Bendocchi-Alves
Composer: Martina Eisenreich
Production Designer: Goran Joksimovic Joksa
Costume Design: Ljiljana Petrovic
Sound: Nenad Vukadinovic
Producer: Gabriela Sperl
Co-Producer: Damir Teresek, Piroska Tolnai-Varga
Production Company: Sperl Productions GmbH
Director: Michaela Kezele
