Normal People

Normalni ljudi

Serbia, Yugoslavia, Germany

2001

91 Min

Color

Serbian

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Karl Baumgartner, Maksa Catovic, Thorsten Klein, Cooky Ziesche

SCR Oleg Novković, Srdjan Koljevic

CAST Nebojša Glogovac, Ljubinka Klarić, Ivan Jevtovic, Nikola Djuricko, Slobodan Ninković, Vladan Dujović, Branimir Popović, Mirjana Lazarević, Radoslav Milenkovic, Bogdan Diklić, Nikola Pejaković, Milena Dravić, Aleksandar Bercek, Tanja Bošković, Dragan Jovanovic, Zoran Cvijanović

PROD DES Biljana Sovilj, Dragan Sovilj

Year 2000, last months of Milosevic`s regime, in suburbs of Belgrade. Group of friends meets every night in a local cafe. They dream of leading normal lives. Steva the bartender is in love with an actress. Duya is in love with his motorbike. Bane the bar owner is planning to steal it. Nikola the war veteran is dreaming of getting a job. Toma the ambulance driver is in love with Mira. Mira is in love with a local criminal. He is abusing her. Sometimes she thinks she is in love with Toma… —Film Center Serbia

Director

Oleg Novković

Oleg Novković (b. 1968, Belgrade) studied film and television direction in his native city at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, where he was taught by Srdjan Karanović, a graduate of FAMU. In 1993 he made his directorial debut Say Why You Are Leaving Me (Kaži zašto me ostavi), which won awards at festivals at home and abroad. His filmography includes a number of television programmes and full-length documentaries, among them Normal People (Normalni ljudi, 2001), Invisible People (Nevidljivi ljudi, 2002), Children (Deca, 2002), Picnic (Izlet), and Goodbye, Mama, I Am Leaving (Dovidjenja, mama, ja idem!), both 2003. He first worked with writer Milena Marković on the screenplay and shooting of the documentary Miners’ Opera (Rudarska opera, 2005). Novković won a Nipkow Programme Fellowship (1998), took part in a Master Class under the aegis of the European Film Academy (1999) and works on international projects. —Karlovy Vary IFF