Spring 2001... A civil war is raging in Macedonia...
Trendafil Karanfilov is fleeing his home-town to avoid joining the local army. Together with his wife Ruza he's hurriedly packing all sorts of goods (including her wicked mother Zumbula) into their family car, destination neighboring Bulgaria. But that spring of 2001 was incredibly hot... and the old granny Zumbula perishes due to the heat! Faced with the bureaucracy in a foreign land, with an old corpse that begins to rot, Trendafil decides to smuggle Zumbula's body back to Macedonia, wrapped up in a car pet. And so he has done... but the carpet was stolen on the way home! Facing the desperation, they decide to call their brother-in-law Santino, an Italian Mafioso, to help them find the body. And they begin the quest for the dead granny: from antic Greece to Serbia and Montenegro, over the mountains of Bosnia to the fields of Kosovo, all-over the nine hell circles of the Balkan criminal underworld.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
* XXVII Moscow International Film Festival - Moscow, Russia
(Special Mention of the Film Critic's Guild of Russia)
* 24th Filmfest Muenchen - Munich, Germany
* 14th Raindance Film Festival - London, UK
* 7th Motovun Film Festival - Motovun, Croatia
(Award "From A to A" for the Best film in the region)
* 9th European Film Festival - Bucharest, Romania (Audience Award)
* 16th CINEQUEST-San Jose, California, USA
* 17th Palm Springs International Film Festival - Palm Springs, California, USA
* 12th International Film Festival Palic - Subotica, Serbia
* 4th Capetown World Cinema Festival - Capetown, South Africa
* 7th Balkan Black Box - Berlin, Germany
* 39th WorlFest - Houston, Texas, USA
* 37th Nashville Film Festival - Nashville, Tennessee, USA
* 20th DC International Film Festival -Washington, DC, USA
* 11th Palm Beach Film Festival - Palm Beach, Florida, USA
* 18th Festival de Peniscola - Valencia, Spain
* Ex-YU Fest - Podgorica, Montenegro
本片讲述了1970年代德国极左恐怖组织“红军支队”的兴衰史。由安德里亚斯·巴德尔(莫里兹·布雷多 Moritz Bleibtreu饰)和乌尔丽克·迈因霍夫(马蒂娜·戈黛特 Martina Gedeck饰)领导的德国无政府主义组织“红军支队”,从1972年开始一直从事极左的恐怖活动。在标榜以德国“国家道德腐败”的名义下,该组织试图创建一个更加人性化的社会体制。然而他们正是用以暴制暴的方式,犯下了多起暗杀、爆炸攻击以及绑架的罪行,所谓的人性在嗜血成性的恐怖事件当中消失殆尽。
影片根据记者斯特凡·奥斯特80年代的畅销书改编而成,荣获2009年第81届奥斯卡金像奖最佳外语片提名,2009年第66届金球奖电影类-最佳外语片提名,2009年第22届欧洲电影奖最佳男演员提名等多项大奖。
Euskadi 1985. El colegio ha terminado, por fin llegan las ansiadas vacaciones. Marcos y sus tres amigos, José Antonio, Paquito y Toni, reciben expectantes la llegada del verano, un verano prometedor sobre todo porque a sus doce años poco importa dónde, ni cuándo, ni cómo. Recorrerán las horas en el laberinto que la vida les ha deparado, en una Euskadi antigua, luchadora, convulsa. Un laberinto de paredes grafiteras, donde rebotan las pelotas de goma y los sueños de libertad; cubierto de un cielo gris prefabricado en cooperativas, donde la muerte y la vida ya no mantienen relaciones formales.