This is a life story of Lidija Šunjerga, the first woman in Croatia to talk openly about her profession of porn actress. From an unhappy childhood in a small village through trafficking and forced prostitution in Amsterdam to an acclaimed porn actress and Playboy cover page... and then... back again to a small village... Shot in Croatia and Amsterdam in the period of two and a half years.
Dana Budisavljević was born in 1975 in Zagreb, where she graduated from the Film and TV Editing Department of the Academy of Dramatic Arts. She worked as a film editor, production assistant and organizer of film festivals. Her directorial debut was the documentary Straight A’s! (2004), after which she went on to win wide acclaim with Family Meals (2012). With Hulahop, a production company she founded with Olinka Vištica in 2006, she produced documentary series Slumbering Concrete by Saša Ban, as well as films I Like That Super Most the Best by Eva Kraljević, Then I See Tanja by Juraj Lerotić, and others. The Diary of Diana B. (2019) is her debut feature-length film. It premiered at the 2019 Pula Film Festival, where it won six awards, after which it was screened and awarded at international festivals.
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Sve pet!
2004, 45', color, video
Directed by:
Dana Budisavljević
Screenplay by:
Dana Budisavljević, Jelena Paljan
Cinematography:
Dana Boo, Andrej Korovljev, Anne Marie Boorsboom
Edited by:
Tomislav Pavlic
Producer:
Nenad Puhovski
Produced by:
Factum