An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker ( Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza )

An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Croatian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
74 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Slovenia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Danis Tanovic

Written By:
Danis Tanovic

Actors:
Nazif Mujic ..... Nazif
Senada Alimanovic ..... Senada
Semsa Mujic ..... Semsa
Sandra Mujic ..... Sandra

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Bosnian audio with English subtitles***A Roma family lives far from the urban centres of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The father Nazif salvages metal from old cars and sells it to a scrap-dealer. The mother Senada keeps the house tidy, cooks, bakes and cares for their two small daughters. One day, she feels a sharp pain in her abdomen. At the hospital she is told there is something wrong with the baby she is carrying: "They say it's dead." She is at risk of septicaemia and they must operate immediately. But Senada has no medical insurance; since the operation will cost much more than the family can afford the hospital's head refuses to treat her. A race against time together with a mounting sense of hopelessness played by a cast of non-professional actors re-enacting an episode from their own lives. Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix and the Silver Bear for best actor at the Berlin Film Festival 2013.

The latest drama from Bosnian director Danis Tanovi? enlists a cast of non-professionals to reconstruct a harrowing personal ordeal that became a national scandal. Awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Berlin, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker is a story of courage in the face of hardship and injustice. It revisits the alarming saga of Senada Alimanovi? and partner Nazif Muji? (recipient of the Berlin Silver Bear for best actor for his autobiographical portrayal). Struggling to make ends meet as a scrap-metal forager in the remote Roma community of Poljice, Nazif's hardscrabble routine becomes a desperate fight for survival when Senada suffers a miscarriage. Without medical insurance or means to pay for a life-saving antisepsis procedure, Senada and Nazif are denied admittance to the local hospital. So begins a hellish ten-day odyssey pitting the couple against social prejudice and a callous bureaucracy, as Nazif scrounges and Senada's condition grows ever more critical. From these wrenching events, Tanovi? fashions an unflinching expos? of the institutional discrimination faced by Bosnia- Herzegovina's Roma minority. Shot with an unvarnished, verit? aesthetic against the bleak backdrop of the Bosnian winter, his film treats its subject with great compassion, providing an intimate, empathetic portrait of dignity amid crisis. His non-professional performers, meanwhile, lend the project a compelling authenticity. The knowledge that they are reliving their own nightmarish memories only bolsters the emotional potency of Tanovi?'s pointed social critique.

The price of poverty in the bleak Balkan midwinter.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 05 March, 2015.

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