Jugofilm
Feature Film, AT 1997, Farbe, 88 min., OmdU
Diagonale 2023
Director, Script: Goran Rebić
Cast: Michael Jovanović, Merab Ninidze, Tamara Simunović, Ljubiša Samardžić, Eva Mattes, Ratka Krstulović-Kusturica, Aleksandar Jovanović, Loretta Pflaum, Salko Sarić, Wolf Bachofner, Roswitha Soukup
Camera: Jerzy Palacz
Editor: Andreas Kopriva
Location Sound: Bernhard Weirather, Andreas Kopriva
Music: Andi Haller and the Lonesome Andi Haller Band
Production Design: Bertram Reiter
Costumes: Elisabeth Blanke-Pongratz
Producers: Erich Lackner
Production: Lotus Film
Vienna 1991. For the members of a Serbian-Viennese guest worker family, not only have the daily tragic television and radio news from the war in Yugoslavia become a time-detonated explosive device with fatal effect—nothing is like it was before. Shortly before his birthday, Sascha (Merab Ninidze) is drafted into the Serbian army. When he returns after a year of no news from him, nothing can be the same as before. Did he commit the war crimes that his neighbors accuse him of? Gradually, doubts begin to arise, and the small community of Austrian immigrants is torn apart.