International documentary film festival
March 30 - April 6, 2025
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

Literary Groupie (Književna groupie)

Nikica Marović

Literary Groupie

So far, Željko Špoljar has published collections of stories ""Teškoće pri gutanju"", ""Moj brat Felix Krull"", and ""Welcome to Croatia"" in co-authorship with Kristijan Vujičić, for which he received the Kiklop award in 2006. Thanks to the novel ""Gumeni galeb"", Špoljar won the Matica Hrvatska Osijek contest for the best unpublished prose text in 2007. In 2014, he published the novel ""Štakorbar"" (Drago Gervais Literary Award), while in 2020 he published his last novel - ""Petokoronaš"". On the other hand, Pavle Svirac published the novels: ""Literary Groupie"", ""Strovaljivanje"", and ""Kako biti hipster"". Svirac has also been a columnist (“Nacional”) for several years, famous for the series of literary records ""Šta se čita na jarunskoj nudističkoj plaži"" and ""Interlibdžija diary"", while his Književna Groupie Facebook page currently has over 13,000 followers.
The film follows Željko's relationship with Svirac as a personality, his relationship with his ex-wife Maja Hrgović (who until recently worked as a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, and since then as a taxi driver in Split) as well as his relationships with his daughter Nora, family, society, culture, publishing houses and the editor-in-chief of “Nacional”. Through all this, Špoljar/Svirac not only talks about domestic social dilemmas, problems, and conflicts, but also about himself as one of the most interesting phenomena of the contemporary Croatian cultural scene, in the context of local history, not so rare, ""misfit"" protagonists.

Croatia 2024, '60

DIRECTOR: Nikica Marović

SCENARIO: Nikica Marović

CAMERA: Mateja Ilijašev, Tin Ostrošić, Petar Strmečki

MONTAGE: Elena Radošević

PRODUCERS: Nenad Puhovski

PRODUCTION: Factum

Nikica Marović

Nikica Marović

Nikica Marović was born in 1990 in Kotor, Montenegro. He is finishing his graduate studies the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Zagreb, as well as his undergraduate studies in history at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, in Zagreb. He attended film workshops, such as Fade-In's "U Focusu", which provide him with practical knowledge of working on film, so as part of the film workshop of Luksuz production, his first co-authored film TO JE RES was created. Soon afterwards, he has been working in video, festival chronicles and TV report production. Literary Groupie is his first documentary film as an author.

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