After the death of Josip Broz Tito (1892 – 1980) in every of the six Republics and the two Autonomous Provinces there was a town chosen to get the name after the late leader. Today, this eight towns are in seven different states and none of them carries the Tito’s name any longer. The towns in that prosperity period were privileged, chosen for their focus on the socialistic /left/ political ideas and beliefs, working character of the citizens and hard industry. People were advanced by their urban way of life. The film tells the stories of each town, mainly through the stories of their citizens that have the experiences from that period. By recalling the memories and using some archive footage the past period revives and restores in front of our eyes. Many stories are tragic as just the towns were excluded from the destruction of the separating war. The crew travelles from one city to another, finding the most representative places to show past and present and the people that express their thoughts and feelings according to the misson the story carries.
| Producer: |
Matjaž Ham |
| Director: |
Amir Muratović |
| Script: |
Amir Muratović |
| Camera: |
Marko Kočevar, ZFS, Marko Hutter – assistant cameraman and second camera
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| Editing: |
Amir Muratović
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| Director of photography: |
Marko Kočevar, ZFS |
| Others: |
Lighting master: Sveto Makič
Sound engineer: Frane Povirk
Music by: Šemsudin Dino Džopa, Tilen Stepišnik
Sound processing master: Robert Sršen
Map author and graphic designer: Irena Romih |
Amir Muratović (1966) studied film and TV directing at AGRFT and at Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. He worked on numerous documentary films for the Slovenian National Television as screenwriter, director and editor. One of those films, Maypole, received Vesna for best documentary film at the Slovenian Film Festival in 2010. For the past 10 years he’s also been working on a documentary series about contemporary Slovenian art called Zapeljevanje pogleda. In his experimental films he explores the relationship between animated and documented. He’s the author of a film monograph Sladka strast periferije / Enciklopedija Ivice Matića.
Selected works:
- To Fly! (2016), documentary film, 86’
- Kólo – A Song for Matija Jama (2016), documentary film, 64’
- Maypole (2010-2014), documentary film, 46’
- Impression of a Great City (2009-2010), experimental animated film, 13’
- Fabiani Vs. Plečnik (2009), documentary film, 82’
- Bread all Year Round (2006-2008), documentary film, 52’
- The Second Generation (2005), documentary film, 50’
- Two Portraits With the Background (2005-2006), animated documentary film, 22’
- Fleshes From Shooting (1994-2000), animated documentary film, 10’
