Circles (film)

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Movie
German title Circles
Original title Krugovi
Country of production Serbia , Germany , France , Slovenia , Croatia
original language Serbian , German
Publishing year 2013
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Srđan Golubović
script Melina Pota Koljević , Srđan Koljević
production Jelena Mitrović (Film House Baš Čelik ), Alexander Ris (Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion), Emilie Georges (La Cinefacture), Boris T. Matić (Propeler Film), Danijel Hočevar (Vertigo)
music Mario Schneider
camera Aleksandar Ilić
cut Marko Glušac
occupation

Circles ( German  circles , original title: Krugovi ) is a Serbian anti-war film by Srđan Golubović from 2013 . The film is based on a true incident in 1993 at the time of the Bosnian War , in which the young Serb Srđan Aleksić , to whom Golubović dedicated his film posthumously , prevented a person's death through his selfless intervention and lost his own life in the process. Following on from this, the film describes the protagonists' struggle for guilt , revenge and possible reconciliation twelve years after the incident. The editing of the film was done by the editor Marko Glušac, who died shortly after the project was completed .

action

Marko, a Serbian soldier , is an upright and committed young man who is in a relationship with the pretty Nada. Her plans for the future come to an abrupt end when Marko rushes to the aid of the Muslim kiosk owner Haris. He is mistreated by the Serbian officer Todor and two other soldiers on the busy market square in Trebinje because he no longer has Todor's brand of cigarettes in stock. Marko steps in and can end the excess of violence against Haris, but is beaten to death in the process. His friend, the doctor Nebojša, watches the events from a safe distance and does not intervene himself.

Twelve years after the end of the war, circles close around the protagonist. Marko's father Ranko still lives and works in Trebinje. He wonders if his son's death was in vain in the face of the atrocities of war . To distract himself from his pain, he and a youngster are building an old church on a hill above the city, which will be destroyed by the construction of a new hydroelectric power station. One day Bogdan is on the construction site - the son of one of the three perpetrators. At first he doesn't know why Ranko chased him off the construction site. He gets into an argument with his mother, who - knowing what has happened - doesn't want him to help the old man. But Bogdan keeps appearing and is scared away by Ranko day after day. Impressed by so much persistence, one day he is allowed to help with the reconstruction. A friendship develops between the two after Ranko realizes that Bogdan and his father have also lost a family member during the war. When Bogdan has an accident at work, Ranko takes loving care of him. On the way back to town, he ends up referring to him as his son.

Nebojša is still working as a doctor in Belgrade and suddenly meets Todor, who is admitted to his clinic seriously injured after an accident. He operates on him, but also makes it clear to him that he will have to undergo another procedure that will determine his life. The men had several conversations between the two operations. Nebojša is shocked by the complacency of Todor, who remembers the incident but shows no emotion. Todor accuses Nebojša of only watching cowardly at the time and now having a guilty conscience. Shortly afterwards, he finds out that he is at the mercy of Nebojša and is dependent on his help: He is the only doctor who can carry out the life-saving procedure. Nebojša, on the other hand, wrestles with himself and his Hippocratic oath , but ultimately carries out the operation. When Todor wakes up from the anesthetic and realizes that Nebojša did not avenge his friend Marko, he finally shows a human emotion when a tear trickles from the corner of his eye.

Haris works for an automobile manufacturer in Germany. He lives in Halle-Neustadt with his wife and two children in a prefabricated building . One day he is visited by Nada, who is on the run with her son from her husband. After Marko's death, she was caught by a violent pimp, from whom she conceived a child. Haris tries to help the young woman as best he can out of an old bond with his lifesaver Marko. He found her an apartment and found her a job in a nearby diner. But suddenly her husband is standing at his door and wants the boy back. He threatens Haris to kidnap his two children if he does not show him the way to Nada's apartment. At the last second, Haris manages to put Nada and her son on a coach to Bosnia . There she is safe from her husband, who is wanted there as a war criminal . He sends his wife and children to live with his mother-in-law . Nada's husband confronts Haris in his apartment. The situation escalates and Haris is severely abused again. Finally, Nada's husband has to realize that he is also a victim of the war and leaves the apartment crying.

In its final take, the film returns to Marktplatz in 1993. After Marko was able to convince the three soldiers to let go of Haris, they beat him until he remains motionless on the square and dies there.

criticism

For Tamara Danicic from Bayerischer Rundfunk it is a “highly moral act that a young soldier pays with his life in the middle of a war” and serves as a “starting point for a complex, emotional drama about guilt and forgiveness”. The weekly newspaper der Freitag sees the story of Circles as “the small circles and waves that the stone has triggered” and by forming new circles “everyone is striving towards a kind of redemption”. The cinema portal kino.de comes to the conclusion: "Whether scum remains scrap and coward cowardly cowardly, unrepentant and heavy burden of conscience can also go through positive changes, Golubović answers demanding, but consistently conciliatory in Serbia's candidate for the foreign Oscar." Barbara Schweizerhof writes in the Berliner Morgenpost about the film: “It is Sradan's Golubovic's atmospheric staging that gets along without pathos, and above all the nuanced play of the actors, which, despite the 'detailed' plot, captivates the attention and is an aspect of the trauma that continues to this day of the Bosnian War. "

premiere

The film was first shown on January 18, 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States . In Germany, the premiere took place on February 11, 2013 on the occasion of the Berlinale . Circles has also been featured at more than ten film festivals, including:

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b closing credits of the film
  2. ↑ Ivana Nikolic: Belgrade Honors Bravery of Serb Who Saved Bosniak . On January 27, 2016 from balkaninsight.com, accessed May 1, 2017
  3. ↑ Circles press release , Barnsteiner Film website, (PDF; 975 kB), accessed on April 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Radoslav Ćebić: Tajna prvog kadra . February 14, 2012 from vreme.com; Retrieved May 1, 2017
  5. ↑ Guilt and Atonement: Circles - Krugovi , website of Bayerischer Rundfunk, accessed on April 16, 2014.
  6. ↑ Berlinale: Krugovi , site of the Friday, accessed April 16, 2014.
  7. ^ Circles , website of kino.de, accessed on April 16, 2014.
  8. ↑ BerlinLive in the Berliner Morgenpost from April 17, 2014, page 2.
  9. ↑ 63rd Berlinale - The Prices , (PDF; 175 kB), Berlinale website, accessed on April 16, 2014.
  10. ↑ Website of the Yerevan International Film Festival ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (English), accessed April 16, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gaiff.am
  11. ↑ Circles / Krugovi . Accessed on April 16, 2014 at cineast.lu