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29 April (tuesday)
Opening evening / 8.30pm
UK PREMIERE
" SHADOWS " (2007) 120 min
| The guests will be welcomed by the Organizer of the Event and the Ambassador of Republic of Macedonia to the UK
Mrs. Marija Efremova who will officially open the Festival. After the screening, the lead actors Vesna Stanojevska and Borce Nachev will be introduced to the audience through a short interview. A performance on a harp by Vesna Stanojevska will conclude the evening. |
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Director: MILCHO MANCHEVSKI Screenplay: MILCHO MANCHEVSKI Photography: FABIO CIANCHETTI Editor: DAVID RAY, MARTIN LEVENSTEIN Music: RYAN SHORE, additional music by KIRIL DZAJKOVSKI Costumes: ELISABETTA MONTALDO Producers: MILCHO MANCHEVSKI, AMEDEO PAGANI, CORINNA MEHNER, NERMIN GLADERS, MARTIN HUSMANN, DIMITAR GOCHEV, 6ERARDO HERRERO, MARIELA BESUIEVSKY CAST: Dr. Lazar Perkov: BORCE NACEV Menka: VESNA STANOJEVSKA Dr. Vera Perkova: SABINA AJRULA-TOZIJA Gerasim: SALAETIN BILAL Kalina: RATKA RADMANOVIC Gordana: FILARETA ATANASOVA Ignjat Perkov: DIME ILIEV Dr. Shishkin: VLADIMIR JACEV |
It is an old-fashioned, slow-burn of a film. SHADOWS is in many ways my most personal film to date, a story of what happens if lady Macbeth had lived today and survived to have a grown-up son. This man, Lazar, would try to come to terms with her overbearing presence and her transgressions of the past.
It is scary, but it offers no cheap thrills, sound bites nor easy solutions. It is about a man trying to have a dialogue with the dead, and becoming more alive for that experience.
\ Milcho Manchevski \
If we were to choose one man who's got everything going for him, then Lazar Perkov would be an excellent choice. He's young, good-looking, has a beautiful wife, lovely little boy, great house and a good job as a hospital physician. In fact, everyone calls him "Lucky." Nothing's missing - except maybe Lucky himself, who's always trying to live up to the expectations of others. Like his bored wife and roguish colleagues. And, above all, his famous physician mother, a driven woman who rose from obscurity to renown with an iron will that crushed all resistance, whether from the living or the dead...
When Lucky is involved in a disastrous car crash and mysteriously saved from a sure death, his life begins to change. He meets strange people: an old man with a baby, an ancient lady speaking a forgotten dialect, a beautiful young woman with a sad secret... Their only message is: "Return what's not yours. Have respect."
He gradually becomes aware that it is a message from the afterlife, from tormented souls who seem to die over and over again. But why have they chosen him? To answer this question, Lucky must finally grow up and become the man he wants to be...
Writer / director Milcho Manchevski, whose "Before the Rain" won over 30 awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1994, the Independent Spirit award and the Academy-Award nomination the following year, has crafted a hypnotic journey into the heart of our archaic, elemental needs and emotions coloured by a chilling sense of foreboding.
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Sao Paolo International Film Festival
- Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
- Rome International Film Festival
- AFM
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival
- Palm Springs International Film Festival
- Park City Film Festival
- Belgrade International Film Festival
- Sofia International Film Festival