Retrospectives

A satirical view of the Zagreb Employment Service in the late 1980s, when the Croatian capital had a very high unemployment rate in former Yugoslavia. In the corridors of the Service we meet unemployed people of all profiled, but also bland employees with stacks of charts. All of them on a futile mission: the unemployed trying to find a job praying not to find it, the employees offering them other people’s jobs, all this framed by empty administrative talk. Our Stock Exchange earned Brešan a diploma at the Oberhausen festival.

The film reveals the background and course of events during the largest protest in recent Croatian history, when over 100 thousand people gathered on 21 November 1996 to rally against the closure of Radio 101. This is a complex and information-laden reconstruction, compiled almost a decade afterwards. The documentary features the memories and reasons for participation in the turbulent events explained by the 101 central players, numerous politicians of different profiles and independent media representatives. What used to belong to the past, only eight years after the film was made becomes strangely familiar and almost frightening.

A documentary film made in the corridor of the Zagreb Municipal Court, in which barristers speak about the reasons for trials and court proceedings. The director stimulates them to a certain type of behaviour before the camera, i.e. makes it possible for them to perform or play freely chosen “roles”, speak about themselves or recite, and thus present themselves. The Corridor won the Oktavijan Award at the Days of Croatian Film in 1995.