Tressette: A Story of an Island  Croatia
2005, 80min.
Prod.: Vesna Mort, Script: Pavo Marinkovic, Dir.: Drazen Zarkovic, Pavo Marinkovic, Dir. of Phot.: Vedran Samanovic, Compos.: Hrvoje Crnic Art. Dir.: Gorana Stepan, Sound: Toni Jurkovich, Edit.: Slaven Zecevic.
Cast: Josip Genda, Zarko Potocnjak, Sinisa Brajcic, Trpimir Jurkic, Bruna Bebic-Tudor, Marinko Prga, Ksenia Prohask etc.
On a small, dying Croatian island, four friends live among the few inhabitants, playing card games almost every evening. When one of the four dies, the remaining three desperately try to find the fourth for the game. Thus they attempt to conscript the local priest, the village loon, a man from big city who came to the island to buy a summer house, the local cop... Their search becomes embroiled in the destinies of the small number of people on the island, revealing their deeply buried secrets.
Awards
Mannheim-Heidelberg IFF, 2006 (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury); Bergamo Film Meeting, 2007 (Silver Rosa Camuna)
| Žarković, Dražen  Dražen Žarković (born 02.11.1970, Zagreb, Croatia)
Dražen Žarković graduated from Film and TV Directing at the ADU (Academy of Drama Arts). Working as a freelance artist since 1993, he has created numerous feature and documentary projects as writer and director, and assistant director in features. He has won four Oktavijan Awards from the Croatian Film Critics’ Society, for his short subjects Čakaj me (1993), Hunt for Oneself (1994) and Šalter (2001), and for his medium-length feature Novogodišnja pljačka (1998). Šalter has won the Golden Olive Award at the Bar TV Festival, while his feature-length debut, Go, Yellow!, won the Silver Olive at the same festival in 2002. He won the Jury Prize at the Days of Croatian Film as editor of the documentary short Od jutra do mraka in 2005.
Filmography
Hunt for Oneself (Samopotjera, 1993), Nothing's Permanent (Prolazi sve, 1994), Crime and Punishment (Zlocin i kazna, 1994), Rock 'n' roll (1994), Proljece Ivana B. (1995), Novogodisnja pljacka (1997, TV), Go, Yellow (Ajmo zuti, 2001, TV), Tressette: A Story of an Island (Treseta, 2006), Bitange i princeze (7 episodes, 2007).
Marinković, Pavo  Pavo Marinković (born 1967, Zagreb, Croatia)
Pavo Marinković graduated from Scriptwriting at the ADU. His first dramatic works appear in the early nineties. His plays, performed in Croatia and abroad, have garnered numerous awards. He has worked for the Drama Programme of the Croatian Television, supervising scriptwriting on some twenty long and medium-length features, and several miniseries. He writes theatrical plays and film scripts, collaborates on theatrical and film scriptwriting, translates dramas and publishes essays on dramatic art. He wrote the screenplay for the Dražen Žarković feature Go, Yellow!
Filmography
Go, Yellow (Ajmo zuti 2001, TV), Tressette: A Story of an Island (Treseta, 2006).
|
