Feature documentary about the biggest Slovenian film star Ita Rina, born in Divaca. She became world famous with her films in the 20’s and 30’s of the 20st century. Because of the high viewing rates of her films in America and Europe, she was often invited to Hollywood. In France, Ita Rina was called “big artist” and they compared her with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, in Latvia and Croatia she was celebrated by songs, the Czechs called her “the big tragedian of the silver screen”. During the preparations for this film the trailer of her first film: “What children don’t tell” was found. In Belgrade was discovered her correspondence with her future husband Miodrag Djordjevič, the legendary director Veljko Bulajič, the only living film director who worked with Ita Rina talked about their collaboration at last film called “War”. Film was filmed in Divača, Ljubljana, Berlin, Tallin, Belgrade, Zagreb, Prague, Venice, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as with the Slovenian Cinematheque and RTV Slovenia.
| Producer: |
Cebram |
| Director: |
Marta Frelih |
| Script: |
Marta Frelih |
| Camera: |
Rado Likon – ZFS
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| Editing: |
Snježana Gazdić
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| Director of photography: |
Rado Likon – ZFS |
| Others: |
Original author's music: Vojko Sfiligoj
Project manager: Nina Marucelj |
In 1992 she graduated from Neue Kunstschule Zürich, Switzerland and gained a title costume designer and fashion designer. In 1994 she graduated from the Faculty of Education in Maribor and received an education as a professor of art pedagogics. In 2002 she finished master’s degree at AGRFT in Ljubljana (her master thesis: Comparison between theatre and film). In 2007 she obtained PhD (Doctor of Developmental Science and Arts) from Kunstinstitut der Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät at the University of Cologne, Germany. As an independent costumer designer and set designer she worked for opera, drama, ballet, dance theatre, musical and cabaret in Slovenia, Germany, Austria, France and Switzerland. She also had sixteen independent photography and art exhibitions.
During her studies in Cologne, Germany she participated in designing drama and multimedia performances: 2003 Moliere: ‘Die gelehrten Frauen’, 2004 Goethe: ‘Urfaust’, 2005 Eva Maria Hein: ‘The Shakespeare’s Girls’ and in a short film with the same title at the Kunstinstitut der Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät. In 2004/2005 she was running a seminar at the University of Cologne, focusing on: ‘Women’s characters in Shakespeare’s dramas’. In 2002 while studying film theory at AGRFT she fell in love with film and got an idea for her first documentary film ‘I. Kobilca – portrait of a painter’ (72 min).
