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AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER
Epizoda u životu berača željeza
Synopsis
Nazif barely makes ends meet as an iron picker to support his family. He searches daily for scrap metal while his partner Senada tends to their home and their two young daughters. A third baby is on the way. But when Senada suffers a miscarriage, she needs an immediate, expensive treatment.
Synopsis
Nazif barely makes ends meet as an iron picker to support his family. He searches daily for scrap metal while his partner Senada tends to their home and their two young daughters. A third baby is on the way. But when Senada suffers a miscarriage, she needs an immediate, expensive treatment.
Our take
After making films in French and English, Danis Tanović (the Yugoslavian director of the Oscar®-winning No Man’s Land) has returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina to make this deeply felt social realist drama. Winner of the Silver Bear and Best Actor prizes at the Berlinale.