Djangarchi
Djangarchi is a film about Oleg Mankuev, one of four throat singers, the Djangarchi, from Kalmikija. Kalmikija is an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation and the only Buddhist country in Europe. Djangar is an epic poem that has been sung since ancient times. This poem is the carrier of national pride and identity of the people of Kalmikija throughout generations. Djangarchi has also been called ‘the carrier of eternity‘. Conceived as an exciting road movie documentary, the film follows Oleg's journey from Kalmikija to Croatia, in search of his own identity and new musician friends. By singing this old epic poem, Oleg is about to leave his motherland Kalmikija and is about to go to Rijeka (Croatia) to cooperate with Damir Martinovic, the frontman and the producer of Let 3, a famous and surely the most eccentric Croatian band.
Rosemarie / Oh, My Sailor
Two former lovers who meet coincidentally through the Internet after fifty years, being in their old age, review their memories – he while cleaning his unkempt, messy house on a Croatian island, she while watching neatly arranged photos in an old album in her apartment in Berlin.
On a summer evening of 1961, on the terrace of a hotel on the Island of Krk, Nikola (31) and Rosemarie (21) danced for the first time to the tune of Oh my sailor. She had come from far away Berlin to catch some sun and sea, and he was waiting for girls just like her. Fifty years later Nikola s (81) phone rings and on the other side Rosemarie tells him that she has found his phone number "Googling" his name.
A month later Rosemarie gathers her courage to travel once more to the island of her splendid memories. Nikola decides to do a big clean-up of his house which has stayed almost identical to the one in which he and the young girl had stayed.
Removing old spider webs, washing grimy windows, putting the books in order…during his cleaning we learn about different adventures of the pair. Night swimming, jealousies, dancing places, Nikola visiting Rosemary in Berlin.
The deal to meet again soon challenges their imagination and curiosity. What does the other one look like today, what has he/she been doing during his/her life? Will he/she be very old, has he/she got hair, does he/she remember when they were swimming nude under the moonlight in the Adriatic Sea, has he/she got anyone today?
Their encounter answers the questions in part, her memories start one way, his memories finish another way. One song remains the uncertain connection – the Croatian song Oh, My Sailor.
Here stops the documentary and starts the fictional part of the film, shot in 3D technology.
They dance among the ruins of a former Grand Hotel of Yugoslavia with a real quartet playing their song in these unreal surroundings. A stand-off between reality and fiction just like their romantic past and the prosaic present…
On a summer evening of 1961, on the terrace of a hotel on the Island of Krk, Nikola (31) and Rosemarie (21) danced for the first time to the tune of Oh my sailor. She had come from far away Berlin to catch some sun and sea, and he was waiting for girls just like her. Fifty years later Nikola s (81) phone rings and on the other side Rosemarie tells him that she has found his phone number "Googling" his name.
A month later Rosemarie gathers her courage to travel once more to the island of her splendid memories. Nikola decides to do a big clean-up of his house which has stayed almost identical to the one in which he and the young girl had stayed.
Removing old spider webs, washing grimy windows, putting the books in order…during his cleaning we learn about different adventures of the pair. Night swimming, jealousies, dancing places, Nikola visiting Rosemary in Berlin.
The deal to meet again soon challenges their imagination and curiosity. What does the other one look like today, what has he/she been doing during his/her life? Will he/she be very old, has he/she got hair, does he/she remember when they were swimming nude under the moonlight in the Adriatic Sea, has he/she got anyone today?
Their encounter answers the questions in part, her memories start one way, his memories finish another way. One song remains the uncertain connection – the Croatian song Oh, My Sailor.
Here stops the documentary and starts the fictional part of the film, shot in 3D technology.
They dance among the ruins of a former Grand Hotel of Yugoslavia with a real quartet playing their song in these unreal surroundings. A stand-off between reality and fiction just like their romantic past and the prosaic present…