The story about privatization of the Zagreb Tobacco Factory (TDZ), moving of its facilities to Istria and occupation of its Zagreb plant by its workers in 2006 is a rare example of a direct workers’ action against the privatization that has, to a large extent, pauperized the ‘cream’ of the former state – its working class. With time distance of four years – this film preserves a fragment of Croatia’s transition period. It has been made ‘in fond memory’ of the forty-odd persons for whom the fight against the untouchable economic and political elite was the only acceptable option.
Igor Bezinović
Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka, which is now part of Croatia, but at that time belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, before that partly the Kingdom of Italy and partly the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (and before that the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), before that the Free State of Fiume, before that the Italian Regency of Carnaro, before that Austria-Hungary… His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for best Croatian feature in 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. His work has been shown internationally at events including IFF Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), Museum of the Moving Image and the Guanajuato IFF. He graduated in film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and in Philosophy, Sociology and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He is a member of The Croatian Film Directors’ Guild and the judo club Black Belt.
General sponsor
TDZ – za uspomenu i dugo sjećanje
Croatia
2010, 30', color, video
Directed by:
Igor Bezinović
Screenplay by:
Igor Bezinović
Cinematography:
Srećko Horvat, Jovica Lončar, Igor Bezinović, Srđan Kokanov, Igor Vincetić, Ljubo Zdjelarević, Eva Kraljević
Edited by:
Maida Srabović
Producer:
Nenad Puhovski
Produced by:
FACTUM
