The new film by Predrag Ličina, a Zagreb director who is often in Belgrade, will tell the story of Zagreb's urban Serbs seven years before the war. Ličina talks about this for "Vreme"
Zagreb director Predrag Ličina (1972) gained wider popularity with his first feature movie "The last Serb in Croatia" (2019), and in Belgrade, where he has been shooting commercials for years, he has become so at home that many already perceive him as a welcome sight city character.
At the last competition of the Film Center of Serbia, he received funds for his next production - "The Virus of Pathological Kindness". The script, which he wrote himself, deals with the problem of Zagreb's urban Serbs at the beginning of the wars of the nineties.
A tricky subject, which Lichina will approach in his own slightly twisted way. "Actually, the action of the film is set seven years before the beginning of the departure of Serbs from Croatian urban areas - in 1983." And yes, it's a comedy," he tells Vreme.
"To be more precise, it's satire - because if a character from 2025 arrived in 1983 in a time machine and told you what awaits you in the next 40 years, you'd probably call someone from a mental institution to pick up that madman," says Ličina.
The budget has not been finalized yet
"The departure of urban Serbs from Croatia is only one of the motives of this story - essentially, the film, which takes place during one evening in the aforementioned year 1983, tells about how sickly traditional values have set us back in less than half a century," adds the director .
He does not know when the shooting of the film will begin. Because, he says, he now has a budget for the first 39 minutes.
"I am in negotiations with several sponsors, so it is possible to make it to the first 56 minutes." If I receive funds from two more film funds in Regionistan, then we can already talk about the start of filming. It can happen this year, it can happen next, and it can happen only in 2027."
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