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Zagreb Film Festival
21 - 27 October 2007

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20.09.2007
New film by Zvyagintsev on ZFF

We are proud to inform you that in this year's programme, Zagreb Film Festival will showcase a new movie by Andrei Zvyagintsev, the director behind cult movie ‘The Return' which won the first prize in 1. ZFF. After a few years break, famous Russian is back on the big screen with a heavy drama ‘The Banishment'/ ‘Izgnanie', about misunderstanding, betrayal, love and death, loosely based on the novel ‘Laughin' Matter' by William Saroyan.

'The Banishment' deals with a married couple - Alex (Konstantin Lavronenko) and Vera (Maria Bonnevie) who decide to move to the countryside with their kids. Away from the city, which provided them with the illusion of happiness, the relationship between the two of them starts to deteriorate. Things get worse when Vera tells Alex hat she's carrying another man's child, but everything goes completely wrong when Alex decides to solve the situation by organizing an abortion, with a little help of his criminal brother Mark.

Fabulous cinematography that you can check here is a work of ‘The Return's' cinematographer Mikhail Krichman and music is, once again, done by Estonian minimalist Arvo Part. The movie was nominated for Palme d'Or of this year's  Cannes, as was the lead actor Konstantin Lavronenko who won the prestigious prize. Extras about cast and crew can be found on this page.

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Portrets II

Portrets I

Day 07 - Saturday

Day 06 - Friday

Day 05 - Thursday

Day fourth - Wednesday

Day third - tuesday

Day 02 - Monday

Day 01 - sunday

ZFF before festival II

ZFF before festival I

gjuro II 16.10.07.

press 16.10.07.

after exibition F.M.

exibition S.F.