Skinning (2010) ( Sisanje )

Skinning (2010) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sisanje
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Serbia and Montenegro ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Stevan Filipovic

Written By:
Dimitrije Vojnov
Stevan Filipovic

Actors:
Nikola Rakocevic ..... Novica
Viktor Savic ..... Relja
Natasa Tapuskovic ..... Inspektorka Lidija
Nikola Kojo ..... Inspektor Milutin
Bojana Novakovic ..... Mina
Predrag Ejdus ..... Akademik Hadzi-Tankosic
Dragan Micanovic ..... Profesor
Srdjan Miletic ..... Pufta
Jasmina Avramovic ..... Profesorka na takmicenju
Igor Bencina ..... Policajac Vozac
Bojan Buzdimirovic ..... Srafciger
Djordje Djokovic ..... Fudbaler Dragosavac
Marko Gizdavic ..... Dizelas 2
Nikola Glisic ..... Dizelas 4
David Ibrovic ..... Klinac

Synopsis:

SISANJE is a story of a young Belgrade high school math champ Novica who gets seduced into the world of skinheads by their charismatic leader Relja. Novica joins the gang of racist skinheads in an attempt to overcome the geek status in school but soon enough he is sucked into the world of racism, violence and hooliganism, the skinhead movement takes him over and eventually he starts climbing up the ladder in the skinhead hierarchy.

Dedicated to the victims of hooligan violence in Serbia, Stevan Filipovi?'s hard-hitting Skinhead drama, Skinning, analyses the descent of a promising young man into Fascism and violence. Novica, played superbly by Nikola Rako?evic, is a maths whiz who becomes indoctrinated by his thuggish classmate Relja (Viktor Savi?). Novica's involvement in Nazism is realistically portrayed and terrifyingly fast. Filipovi? demonstrates that intellectual intelligence does not always equate to moral intelligence and once Novica crosses the line his own ambitious nature means that he soon takes control of the gang, The Iron Order. There's nothing more bigoted than a born again Nazi, trying to impress his new skinhead friends, but when Novica gets carried away and smashes in the skull of a gypsy things are taken a little too far for Relja's liking, who admits he only formed the gang because it was a cool image. The film is a superb, if fairly uncomfortable thriller; with Novica, drunk on the adoration of his new peers, refocusing the gang's scuffles with the Gypsies and rival football club into a full blown revolution, whilst Lidija, a female cop hungry for promotion in a male dominated world, attempts to solve the murder and deal with rampant police corruption. Given the recent actions of Anders Behring Breivik in Norway and the slow rise of nationalist sentiment across Europe over the last decade, Skinning is a timely film that doesn't merely demonise the movement but is almost anthropological in studying how it spreads.

A coming-of-age story that tackles the subjects of love, loyalty, manipulation and hooliganism, showing the transformation of Belgrade's teen Novica from invisible math geek to an unscrupulous leader of a Nazi group.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 August, 2012.

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