Lea i Darija
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Lea i Darija |
| Country of production | Croatia |
| original language | Croatian |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 101 minutes |
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| Director | Branko Ivanda |
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Lea i Darija is a biographical film drama by Croatian film director Branko Ivanda from 2011. The film, based on true events, describes the friendship of the young actress Lea Deutsch with the dancer Darija Gasteiger and their fate in Yugoslavia in the early 1940s.
action
Zagreb, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Lea is a well-known child star and celebrates international success on stage as an actress. Her new stage partner will be the dancer Darija. After both initially compete, a close friendship develops between the girls. But then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was drawn into the Second World War, the country smashed and both Croatian homeland came under the influence of National Socialism as an independent state of Croatia . While this gives Darija's career a boost and she is even allowed to perform in Berlin , Lea is from now on discriminated as a Jew and, among other things, is banned from performing. Eventually she is deported with her family. She did not survive the transport to a concentration camp . Her mother and brother die in Auschwitz concentration camp .
70 years later, Darija, who had to flee to Austria with her family when the Independent Republic of Croatia collapsed, lives as an old woman in Innsbruck and remembers her long repressed time with Lea.
background
The film was shot in 35 days at original locations in and around Zagreb. It is a co-production of the Croatian TV with Art septime .
The main actresses Klara Naka (* 1998 in Zagreb) and Tamy Zajec (* 1996 in Zagreb) are professional dancers and steppers.
The film had its world premiere on July 16, 2011 at the Pula Film Festival and was released in Croatian cinemas on January 29, 2012.
At the same time as the feature film, a 55-minute documentary about Lea and Darija was made.
Reviews
Volker Petzold judged in the journal KinderJugendfilmKorrespondenz (kjk) that the current existence of the two leading actresses was "an extraordinarily lucky circumstance for director Branko Ivanda", "because only with these two and at that point in time he was able to tell the fate of Lea and Darija Bring canvas ". The director tells "to the viewer Leaa's life and death (...) without glossing over, but also without judging and condemning." Lea's dying in the train car congeals to "an exuberant musical scene in which the walls of the car fall apart and the doomed figures - above all the passionately stepping Lea - offer a hymn to life, reminiscent of the no less paradoxical scenes from Roberto Benignis "La vita e bella" ( Life is beautiful ) and Radu Mihaileanu's "Train de vie" ( Train of Life ). "
Awards
- Jewish Eye - World Jewish Film Festival 2011 - Best Film
Web links
- Lea i Darija in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- http://www.religionfilm.com/en/film/lea-and-daria-en
- FILM FORUM ZADAR 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lea i Darija - Dječje carstvo (Croatian) . In: hrt.hr , Hrvatska radiotelevizija .
- ↑ Završeno snimanje potresnog filma o Lei German (Croatian) . In: www.online-zagreb.hr , Online Zagreb.
- ↑ Klara Naka on IMDb.com, accessed December 29, 2017
- ↑ Tamy Zajec , imdb.com December 29 , 2017
- ↑ Release Info , imdb.com, accessed December 29, 2017
- ↑ Lea i Darija , Zagreb jewish film festival, accessed on December 29, 2017
- ↑ Children's youth film correspondence, issue 129 1/2012, page 13 ( .pdf )
- ↑ Awards , imdb.com, accessed December 29, 2017