Fine Dead Girls
English-language DVD cover released by the Global Film Initiative
CroatianFine mrtve djevojke
Directed byDalibor Matanić
Written byDalibor Matanić, Mate Matišić
Produced byJozo Patljak
StarringOlga Pakalović
Nina Violić
Krešimir Mikić
Inge Appelt
Ivica Vidović
Milan Štrljić
CinematographyBranko Linta
Edited byTomislav Pavlić
Music byJura Ferina, Pavle Miholjević
Production
company
Alka-Film Zagreb
Release date
  • 24 July 2002 (2002-07-24) (Croatia)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryCroatia
LanguageCroatian
Budget€450,000[1]

Fine Dead Girls (Croatian: Fine mrtve djevojke; also distributed internationally as Nice Dead Girls) is a 2002 Croatian drama film that premiered in July 2002, at the Pula Film Festival. The film has been named one of the best Croatian films since Croatia's independence.[2] It caught much attention due to its controversial, provocative themes.

Plot

Iva (Olga Pakalović) and Marija (Nina Violić), a lesbian couple, rent an apartment in Zagreb in a building that seems to provide a quiet and safe environment for their love, but over time the atmosphere in the building becomes more and more threatening.

The elder landlady Olga (Inge Appelt) dominates the building. Other tenants include her calm husband, her grown-up son Daniel (Krešimir Mikić) who has a crush on Iva, the prostitute Lidija (Jadranka Đokić), an abused housewife, a widower keeping the corpse of his newly deceased wife, a gynecologist (Boris Miholjević) performing abortions in one flat of the house, and an ex-soldier who regularly plays martial music at night. The characters are meant to display the madness of the post-war Croatian society.

Marija's conservative religious father secretly stalks his daughter, and pays Lidija to try to seduce Iva, which fails.

After Olga finds out that Iva and Marija are lesbians, the situation escalates to rape, murder and kidnapping.

Cast

Awards and nominations

Pula Film Festival 2002

Geneva Cinéma Tout Ecran 2003

Sochi International Film Festival 2003

75th Academy Awards

References

  1. ^ Polimac, Nenad (30 July 2002). "Fine mrtve djevojke - najbolji hrvatski film od Maršala". Nacional (in Croatian). Zagreb. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  2. ^ Malašić Lazić, Gordana (17 June 2016). "Pula film festival: Najbolji filmovi u posljednjih 25 godina su…". Scena.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "FINE MRTVE DJEVOJKE". Pula Film Festival (in Croatian). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  4. ^ "PALMARES 2003". Geneva International Film Festival (in French). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Film "Fine mrtve djevojke" nagrađen na festivalu u Rusiji". Index.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Fine mrtve djevojke". DaliborMatanic.com (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
  7. ^ "The 75th Academy Awards (2003) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 23 May 2011.

External links

Films directed by Dalibor Matanić
Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the Pula Film Festival
Croatian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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