Illyricvm
COMPETITION · CO-PRODUCTION · FICTION
2022 · 95 min · colour · 5.1 · DCP · 1:2,35
Latin and lllyrian with Slovenian and English subtitles. Co-funded by the Slovenian Film Centre.
| PRODUCER | ANKICA JURIĆ TILIĆ |
| CO-PRODUCER | EVA ROHRMAN |
| CO-PRODUCTION | FORUM LJUBLJANA (SI), KINORAMA (HR), LA SARRAZ PICTURES (IT), BUKA PRODUCTION (XK), SCCA/PRO.BA (BA) |
In 37 BC, a young Illyrian named Volsus joins a Roman unit whose encounters with local, supposedly subjugated Illyrian tribes turn its seemingly simple task of collecting taxes into a perilous journey full of unexpected twists. Through the eyes of the youngster, regarded by the Romans as a primitive barbarian, we see an archaic, emotional world of quaint and brutal laws and traditions, not all that different from our own.
| DIRECTED BY | SIMON BOGOJEVIĆ NARATH |
| WRITTEN BY | SIMON BOGOJEVIĆ NARATH, SAŠA PODGORELEC |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | ALEKSANDAR KAVIĆ |
| MUSIC | MIRKO JANKOV |
| EDITED BY | DAMIR ČUČIĆ |
| PRODUCTION DESIGN | GIORGIO BARULLO |
| COSTUME DESIGN | ZJENA GLAMOČANIN |
| MAKEUP ARTIST | ANA BULAJIĆ ČRČEK |
| SOUND DESIGN | JULIJ ZORNIK |
| CAST | FILIP KRIŽAN (VOLSUS), ROBERT PREBIL (CENTURION DECIM FABIJ), YLBER BARDHI (DARMOCUS), ADRIAN PEZDIRC (PUBLIKAN MARCUS PLAUTIUS), LABEAT BYTYÇI (CURTIJ), FRANJO DIJAK (LUCIJ), EDI ČELIĆ (LEONIDA), ALAN KATIĆ (QUINT), ELVIS BOŠNJAK (OPTIO), ANA TAKAČ (ZDRAVILKA), ILIR PRASHTAPICA (BATO) |
Director’s statement:
»The incentive for this film was curiosity: about our differences or similarities with the people who had populated the Balkan peninsula before the arrival of Christianity, about the similarities and differences between modern and the then emotional and social mechanisms in the context of poverty, occupation, exploitation, ethnic, sectoral and class hatred, and intolerance.«
