Ivan's Game 2019
The life story of Ivan Gudelj, one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time.
The life story of Ivan Gudelj, one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time.
In Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let them watch the televised Olympic final basketball game between the home country and the U.S., but taunting guards interrupt the viewing and prod the prisoners to the point of a riot. After a period of a kind of blissful anarchy where the inmates taste freedom, Keber enlists the house "intellectual" Mrak to devise a system of prisoner self-government aimed at forcing reforms on the state.
The story takes place in a dilapidated building in the blocks of New Belgrade, whose tenants constantly fight and do bad things to one another. In the same building lives a quiet and young married couple, who are completely different from their environment.
A German soldier, after avoiding death in a Partisan raid, wanders through the unforgiving mountainous terrain of an unfamiliar country, helplessly seeking salvation.
A story about arduous everyday life, anxiety, plans and dreams of popular dairywomen from Zagreb's green markets, with Croatia on the way to joining the European Union. Do they and their cheese have a future?