Klopka - The trap

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Movie
German title Klopka - The trap
Original title Клопка
Country of production Serbia , Germany , Hungary
original language Serbian
Publishing year 2007
length 106 minutes
Rod
Director Srđan Golubović
script Srđan Koljević ,
Melina Potakogević
production Jelena Mitrović ,
Nataša Ninković ,
Alexander Ris ,
Jörg Rothe ,
Laszlo Kantor
music Mario Schneider
camera Aleksandar Ilić
cut Marko Glušac ,
Dejan Urošević
occupation

Klopka - The Trap ( Serbian Клопка , Klopka ) is a feature film from 2007 that was made in a Serbian-German-Hungarian co-production. Directed by Srđan Golubović . It is a film adaptation of a play by Nenad Teofilović .

action

Mladen and Marija are a happy couple in Belgrade . This changes when their son Nemanja is diagnosed with a heart disease that requires an operation in Germany that costs € 26,000. With this sum, the couple is overwhelmed. Mladen works for a state construction company and Marija is a teacher. So they belong to the intelligentsia, but as employees of state institutions they belong to the poorly paid residents of Belgrade. Marija often reads advertisements in newspapers where parents ask for donations for their sick children. Mladen is not convinced of the success of such an action, but Marija nevertheless places such an advertisement without her husband's knowledge. After a while, a man answers this ad and Mladen meets with him. This Kosta Antić is ready to give Mladen the money. Mladen is surprised but overjoyed. His mood only changes when Antić also makes a request. Mladen is supposed to kill a businessman and competitor of Antić for the payment of € 30,000. Mladen refuses.

After a while, the prognosis for Nemanja's health deteriorates and the operation becomes all the more necessary. Although Mladen Antić's proposal was rather negative, he received another phone call, in which he was informed of a hiding place. Despite his remorse, Mladen drives to the hiding place and finds a revolver and a letter from Antić. Mladen hides the gun, but takes it out again after receiving an advance of € 3,000 and feeling less and less hope of finding the money for his son's operation elsewhere. The banks don't want to give him a loan either. He observes the businessman and realizes that he is married to Jelena. Mladen knows Jelena from the playground, where her daughter made friends with Nemanja. The remorse grows, but he shoots Jelena's husband on her doorstep and flees.

Mladen is convinced that he will soon be able to pay for the operation, but does not tell his wife about the murder. His conscience plagues him and the remorse grows when he realizes that Antić does not keep his word and does not pay. Mladen tracks down Antić and threatens him, but it turns out that Antić is deeply in debt and only arranged the contract killing to avoid the money problems with Jelena's husband.

When Jelena finally found out about Mladen's sick son and donated the required money to the advertised account on her own initiative, Mladen's remorse became so great that he sought an interview with Jelena to free his conscience. He hands her the murder weapon, but she sends him away again. When he leaves her apartment, the murdered man's brother arrives. A little later, Mladen is shot from Jelena's car while waiting at a traffic light.

background

The film had its world premiere on February 12, 2007 at the Berlinale 2007 as part of the International Forum for Young Films. It was shown for the first time in Serbia on February 23, 2007 at the Belgrade Film Festival. The film was released in Germany in October 2007. It is the second feature film by the young Serbian director Srđan Golubović.

Reviews

“With dramaturgical precision, Golubovic drives his hero into a hopelessness. He not only loads individual conflicts of conscience, but also the dilemma of the Serbian post-war society, in which the paralyzed bourgeoisie is on the brink and the criminal oligarchy pulls the strings, on his shoulders. Even if the past wars are not referred to with any attitude: In almost every picture you can see how tired people are from the efforts of the invisible past and the uncompromising present. "

- Martin Schwickert, Der Tagesspiegel , October 11, 2007

“With the differentiated imagery, which finds its very own style between close-ups and the staging of the urban architecture, KLOPKA - DIE FALLE proves a cinematic approach to the topic that refers to the personal of the story beyond flat metaphors. Even if the protagonist mutates from a caring father to a monster - there is no moral condemnation. "

- film service , 21/2007

Awards

  • Grand Prix at the Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria

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