| 'A Fantastic History of Bosnian Film' was my most ambitious project to the date. I see it today as some kind of kamikaze production: 4 days of shooting in Bosnian Television Studio A and just five days of editing! It's an hour format with eight music videos in it! |
| Shot in 1988, this is a story about a young man who wondering through ruins of some future Sarajevo accidentally discovers several underground storage rooms. He finds old films and once figuring out how to watch them gets drunk by the beauty of the "old world". So drunk that he decides never to come back to the surface. |
| He falls in love with Fedora, a woman he invented and to who he writes long and gentle love letters. Movies he watches shape his dreams and are lively and dynamic and opposite to his life scenes which are all Tarkovsky-like slow and smell on mill due. |
| His dreams are basically music videos assembled from certain old Bosnian feature films. |
| Gradually, my "hero" go over the edge letting himself be forever absorbed by movie screen. |
| I liked how actor Emir Hadzihafisbegovic played his role and I pretty much annoyed him with lack of guidance. On my side, I was influenced by views of Serbian director Zivojin Pavlovic who said that his job with actors was done at the very moment he'd chose them! Emir got from me just basic directions! |
| Producer was Jasminka Klacar who really fought with all her energy for my script. I had wonderful team on that project! Main camera - Josip Ujevic Editor - Vlado Saric Art Director - Vesna Ban Production - TV Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1988 |
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