Three Stories About Sleeplessness
2008, 87 min, 35mm, colour
Directed by Tomislav Radić
Screenplay :Tomislav Radić
Cast: Ecija Ojdanić, Jasna Ančić, Rosana Pastor, Dario Marković, Žuža Ergenyi, Maria Almudever, Marinko Prga, Dražen Bratulić
Director of photography: Vedran Šamanović
Editor: Kruno Kušec
Art director: Ivica Trpčić
Costume designer: Vjera Ivanković
Composer: Drago Mlinarec
Producer: Tomislav Radić
Production: Korugva Film in association with Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT)
It is nighttime. In Croatia, a young woman cannot sleep because her baby keeps crying. Her mother-in-law is also being kept awake by the baby’s crying and she is not shy about offering unwanted child-rearing advice to her daughter-in-law.
In Spain, a young husband and wife are also wide awake in the dead of night: they are in the middle of a turbulent argument. She is Spanish, he is Croatian and their marriage is in crisis because they simply do not understand one another.
Back in Croatia, the young man’s elderly mother is also awake, plagued with indigestion pains. The old woman is also worried about her lodger, a young Spanish girl who happens to be the sister of the old woman’s daughter-in-law in Spain. The young girl comes home with her new lover. He is a taxi driver who drifts aimlessly through the night while his own wife endures a sleepless night with a crying baby and a nagging mother-in-law.
Director and screenwriter Tomislav Radić (Zagreb, 1940) has worked as a director for both film and theatre. His first film Živa istina / The Living Truth (1972) was made in the style of cinema vérité. A similar documentary spirit inspired his drama about a group of theatre actors Timon (1973). After a break of nearly twenty years and a successful theatrical career, he resumed his filmmaking career with a socially engaged drama Luka (1991). He directed another cinema vérité project in 2005 – the most successful film of his career – Što je Iva snimila 21. listopada 2003 / What Iva Recorded on 21 October, 2003.
Radić’s other films include Anđele, moj dragi / My Dear Angel (1995) and Holding / Holding Company (2001).
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