Feature film
Rams and Mammoths
Ovni in mamuti
Filip Robar Dorin · 1985
Synopsis
Three stories intertwine around the workers who came from Bosnia and the other Yugoslav republics to live and work in Slovenia. Huso, a seasonal worker in the municipal services, brims with vitality; Marko Skače, an ordinary Slovene, prowls the bars frequented by immigrant workers and picks fights with them; Slavko, also Bosnian, has made himself entirely at home in Slovene life. A witty commentary skewers the xenophobia of the Slovenes and the prejudices that run on both sides.
Context
Robar Dorin wrote, edited and produced the film for Viba film and his own company, Filmske alternative; Karpo Godina was responsible for the photography, Jani Kovačič for the music and the lyrics. Božidar Bunjevac plays Huso, Marko Derganc Marko Skače, and one also sees Berta Bojetu, Franci Slak and Slavko Štimac. Released on 11 June 1985, the film is part fiction, part documentary. The philosopher Darko Štrajn sees in it an important work of Slovenian postmodernism, ironic towards everyday nationalism, which remained little known because it spoke a little too early of the tensions to come.
Who it is for
An hour and a half between fiction and documentary, sarcastic and anxious, about Bosnian workers in Slovenia.
Prizes and reception
Grand Prize for feature film at Mannheim in 1985; at Pula the same year, first feature prize and the Golden Arena for editing.
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