Wall of Death, and All That

Zid smrti, i tako to

About the film

The film is placed in the world of inexorable noise, dirty food and abundant alcohol. It is the world in which children play on the carousel while next to them amateur strippers entertain loud men against the background of turbo-folk music. Our protagonist is Brankica – a former star of a legendary family of circus performers and acrobats. They called her the Wall (of Death) Princess. Today, Brankica is a grandmother of six grandchildren and she is only 42. She finds herself stuck in that perverse world of Balkan country-fairs, repeating the same old life-threatening stunts on her motorcycle while riding on the sidewalks of an enormous barrel.

Director & screenwriter: Mladen Kovačević
DOP: Pablo Ferro Živanović
Editor: Jelena Maksimović
Sound designer: Aleksandar Protić
Sound recordist: Ivan Antić
Composer: Nemanja Mosurović

Producer: Mladen Kovačević (Horopter)
Co-Producer: Tibor Keser (Restart)
Associate producers: Oliver Sertić, Vanja Jambrović
Production: Horopter (RS)
Co-Production: Restart (HR)

Language: Serbian

Mladen Kovačević’s films have been selected to hundreds of festivals including Rotterdam,  Karlovy Vary, Visions du Réel, IDFA, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, CPH:DOX, FIDMarseille, where they won numerous awards. In the last several years, he has directed UNPLUGGED (2013), WALL OF DEATH AND ALL THAT (2016), 4 YEARS IN 10 MINUTES (2018), and MERRY CHRISTMAS, YIWU (2020), ANOTHER SPRING (2022). Presently, he’s in production of the documentary BEGINNINGS: POSSIBILITY OF PARADISE, and in development of the fiction feature BEHIND THE CURTAINS, BEHIND THE TREES.

Wall of Death, and All That

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