Hamburg Altona film

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Production year: 1989

Duration: oko 107 minuta

Technique: color

Genre:

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Director:
Mitrović, Mladen
Mihletić, Vedran
Krencer, Dragutin

Production house:
Urania film
FRZ Hamburg Altona
Avala film

Camera:
Beritić Tihomir
Mećava Goran
Sarić Željko

Synopsis:
Three prisoners, Čombe from Rijeka, Menso from Bosnia, and Bogart from Belgrade, escape from prison. Their final destination is the city of their dreams - Hamburg. They temporarily part ways and agree to meet at the train station in Zagreb. First, each of them goes to his hometown. From there on, we follow three separate stories. In the first, Čombe, in the shady harbor district of Rijeka, tries to get back at his former crime partner, Mrvi, who turned him in to the police. In the second story, we witness Mensa’s relationship with his wife Riza and their children in a small Bosnian village. The third story depicts Bogart’s love affair with a young teacher in a Belgrade suburb. Afterwards, at the train station in Zagreb, Bogart finds out from the newspaper that the police caught his friends. At the last minute, he changes the original plan…

Cast:
first story - Željko Vukmirica (Čombe), Jelena Čović, Fabijan Šovagović, Zdenko Jelčić, Ivo Gregurević, Ksenija Pajić, Slobodan Dimitrijević; second story - Mirsad Zulić (Menso), Sena Mustajbašić, Tomislav Gelić; third story - Filip Šovagović (Bogart), Vesna Trivalić, Predrag Laković, Aleksandar Berček, Dubravko Jovanović

Country of production:
Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (Socialist Republic of Croatia/ Socialist Republic of Serbia)

Screenplay:
Vedran Mihletić, Dragutin Krencer, Miroslav Pendelj

Music by:
Branislav Živković

Edited by:
Dubravka Premar (prva priča), Višnja Zorić (druga priča), Mirna Supek (treća priča)

Set designer:
Mario Ivezić

Costume designer:
Ivana Korolija

Commentary:
The main critique of this film, the debut work of three young directors, Mihletic and Krencer of Zagreb and Mitrović of Sarajevo, was that they connected the three stories rather mechanically and wrote a clichéd screenplay. Critics in favor of this film claimed that the combination thriller/melodrama was basically interesting in spite of an uninspired directing style and a clichéd screenplay. At the Pula Film Festival, this movie won the Bronze Arena.

Other awards: Herceg Novi 1989 - Special diploma for the director

Screening permit: August 1, 1989