An actress, a painter, and three musicians from Belgrade pursue their dreams while seeking a new beginning in New York City. The outbreak of the war in 1991 and the bomb raids on Belgrade in the spring of 1999 have changed their lives forever. Despite the vibrant lives and careers they enjoy, memories of the past and painful reflections of their shared homeland, the former Yugoslavia, preoccupy their thoughts.
DIRECTED BY ANDREA STAKA
SWITZERLAND, UNITED STATES | 2000 | ENGLISH & SERBOCROATIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Up Next in 3 Films by Andrea Staka
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Fraulein
Ruza left Belgrade more than 25 years ago to seek a new life in Zurich. Now in her fifties, she has completely detached herself from the past. She owns a cafeteria and maintains an orderly, joyless existence. Mila, a waitress there, is a good-humored woman who also emigrated decades ago, but unli...
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Cure: The Life of Another
1993: after the Siege of Dubrovnik. 14-year-old Linda has moved back to Croatia from Switzerland with her father. Her new best friend Eta takes her up to the forbidden forest above the city. The two girls become entangled in an obsessive, sexually charged game of swapping identities that leads to...
