23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Odgrobadogroba

Gravehopping
by Jan Cvitkovic
Country: Slovene
Year: 2005
Duration: 103'


Pero, is thirty years old and lives in a village in Slovenia. He makes his living writing funeral speeches which give voice to his literary ambitions and his ideas about the world. Pero spends his days in his big family home, surrounded by various characters, coping with the loves and un happy marriages of his sisters, his father's suicidal tendencies and, above all, his efforts to win the heart of Renata, the love of his life.

"The film wants to tell a story about common intimacy. The only thing I really want from this film is that at least some of the people who see it will join this intimacy and experience it as if it was their own. The idea of Gravehopping is not to tell, to explain, to disapprove or approve of anything. Therefore, as a person watching the film, you do not have the role of a critic, you are just there watching it. The things exist, are complete in themselves. I wish that people would feel the essence of living, which does not need to be judged or evaluated." (J. Cvitkovic?)

Biography

film director

Jan Cvitkovic

Jan Cvitkovicˇ (Slovenija, 1966) took a diploma in archeology and since 1998 he has written the screenplays for shorts, feature films and TV series. In 1999 he wrote the screenplay of Janez Burger's V Leru (Idle Running), in which he also starred a part for which he won awards in Kiev, Cottbus and Moscow. In 2001 he made his directional debut with Bread and Milk, awarded as Best First Film at the Festival of Venice, and in 2003 he realized the short Heart is a Piece of Meat. Gravehopping is his second full-length feature film.

FILMOGRAFIA

Kruh in mleko (Bread and Milk, 2001), Srce je kos mesa (Heart is a Piece of Meat, cm, 2003), Odgrobadogroba (Gravehopping, 2005).

TFF

prizes

FEATURE FILM COMPETITION 2005

Best Film ex aequo

HOLDEN AWARD 2005

Best Screenplay

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