The vital idea behind the film Album is the protagonist’s attempt to re-establish a normal post-war life, searching for family photographs lost in the war on the territory of former Yugoslavia.
In this poetic film essay, writer Miroslav Kirin is making an attempt at reconstructing a family album with photos destroyed in the war, when his family was forced to leave their home in occupied Petrinja. After the war he finds unusual ‘compensation’: having returned, instead of his family photographs, he finds an undeveloped negative left by the unknown Serbian family who lived in his house during occupation. Ironically and emotionally, these photos become a part of his family album.
| Original title: | Album |
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| Year of production: | 2011. |
| Screening time: | 50' |
| Format: | Beta SP |
| Production: | Factum |
| Co-produced by: | Zagreb film |
| Co-financed by: | Croatian Audiovisual Centre |
| Directed by: | Branko Ištvančić |
| Written by: | Branko Ištvančić, Miroslav Kirin |
| Producer: | Nenad Puhovski |
| Cinematography by: | Bojana Burnać |
| Edited by: | Branko Ištvančić |
| Original score: | Dalibor Grubačević |
| Sound dubbing: | Pere Ištvančić |
| Sound recording: | Hrvoje Grill i Igor Šegović |
| Additional cinematography by: | Raul Brzić |
| Organization of production: | Vanja Daskalović |
Festivals & Awards:
ZagrebDox 2011; Fibula Documentary Film Revue 2011, Sisak; Herceg Novi Film Festival 2011; Alpe Adria Film Festival 2012,Trieste; East Silver Market, Jihlava 2012; BHFF 2017, New York
