Say Why Have You Left Me

Kaži zašto me ostavi

Yugoslavia

1993

99 Min

Color

Serbian

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SCR Oleg Novković, Srdjan Koljevic

CAST Žarko Laušević, Milica Mihajlović, Ljubiša Samardžić, Katarina Gojković, Dragan Jovanovic, Vladan Dujović, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Stevo Žigon, Rahela Ferari, Nikola Pejaković, Predrag Laković, Slavko Stimac

The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months. Returning from there, he discovers changes within himself, but within his home town also. Totally lost, he finds no way to make contact with the environment, and suddenly experiences love with the girl who survived all horrors of that war… —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