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Once We Were Good for You

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Original title

A bili smo vam dobri

Year

2021

Running time

72 min.

Country

Croatia

Director

Branko Schmidt

Screenwriter

Sandra Antolic, Branko Schmidt, Ognjen Svilicic. Idea: Josip Mlakic

Cast

Music

Damir Avdic

Cinematography

Dario Hacek

Producer

Co-production Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina;

Oktavijan filmska udruga, Tele Film

Genre

Drama | Army. Balkan Wars

Synopsis

25 years from the Homeland War, Croatia is far from the ideal of the then veterans, now disgruntled men silenced with pensions. Impoverished, depopulated, corrupt. A few war veterans are brought back together by an idea of a Museum of Homeland Thanksgiving in the old Paromlin building in Zagreb city centre. As construction has been halted, the veterans take over Paromlin. They respond to the police with threats of gas cylinders, and to the special forces with threats of weapons. An ex commander promises them a new location for the Museum, but they are played once again. The young men who took to defending the veterans, deeply disappointed by the way the authorities are treating the men who created Croatia, turn to the extreme right.

Critics' reviews

"Schmidt manages to paint a complex and heavily contextualised but still universally recognisable picture (...) Once We Were Good for You is a dense, thought-provoking and engaging film experience."

Marko Stojiljković: Cineuropa

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Once We Were Good for You

2021

Branko Schmidt