Upside Down

 

UPSIDE DOWN  (Original Title: PREVRTENO)

Colour, 35 mm
Macedonia, Croatia;  2007, 105 min

 

Hideous corners of the city, scenes without a trace of sophistication, depressing enclosed spaces – this is the setting chosen for the desperate life drama of young Jan Ludvik. Its individual chapters are recalled as retrospectives by Jan himself as he travels in a train hurtling through the darkening landscape, in the company of a random female passenger whose miserable exterior renders her the embodiment of the bleakest of destinies. Jan was a gifted student and, by some strange quirk of fate, also a talented circus artist, but the world in which he lives drives him only to self-destructive actions.

Upside Down presents a modernised version of the film expressionism of the past; in this case, the wasted life of an individual forms a parallel to the disintegration engulfing society as a whole, a society which lacks spiritual horizons.

 

Director:

Igor Ivanov

Screenplay:

Venko Andonovski, Igor Ivanov

Cinematographer:

Tomi Salkovski

Music:

Zoran Spasovski

Art Director:

Igor Toshevski

Editor:

Igor Andreevski

Costume  Designer:

Producer:

Blanka Budak

Vladimir Anastasov, Igor A. Nola

Production:

Sektor Film

   

Cast:

Milan Tociniovski, Sanja Trajkovic, Slavisha Kajevski, Nikola Ristanoski, Jordan Simonov, Ines Bojanic, Gjorgi Jolevski, Marija Kondovska

 

 

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