WHAT’S TO BE DONE?
Director: Goran Dević
Producer: Hrvoje Osvadić
Editor: Iva Kraljević
Production company: Petnaesta umjetnost d.o.o.
Croatia I 77 min
Is it possible to be a worker and revolt against capitalism? Is the outcome of every possible riot known in advance?
ŽELJKO is the head of the union at the Gredelj railway car factory. His deputy MLADEN committed suicide after the large public protests and clashes within the union. Željko is torn between the guilt he feels because of Mladen’s death and the expectation between the workers to lead a strike that should thwart the government’s plans, ordered by the EU, to send the company into bankruptcy. The film has a three-act structure. The first part (40 min) consists of the documentary material recorded by way of observational method. In this part, the camera follows the events chronologically. The second, transitional part, was recorded at the screening of the documentary material for the workers ten years later. This act provoked various reactions from the workers. The third (15 min) is the fictive part.
GORAN DEVIĆ / IMDB
GORAN DEVIĆ was born in Sisak, Croatia, in 1971. He studied law, archaeology and film art at Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, Croatia. His filmography includes several documentaries and short films. He teaches documentary film at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and is the author of award-winning documentary films. Retrospectives of his documentaries were screened at Arsenal Berlin, Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz.
Director’s statement
My personal motivation to follow the struggle of the Gredelj Railway Wagon Factory union for ten years with a camera lies in the fact that a whole branch of work is disappearing in front of us. The story that this film deals with is a paradigmatic story of Croatia, but also of all other Eastern European transition countries. Workers who responded to the first ranks of national counter-revolutions, and who in most cases fought for those nations in the war, became losers in the transition when peace was restored. Active in dismantling the old society, the protagonists of this film did not manage to build a new one. This is a film about fighters and workers, dreamers and revolutionaries, union leaders and managers, a film about the unprotected right to work.
HRVOJE OSVADIĆ / IMDB
In 2000 Hrvoje started working in the film industry as an executive producer and production manager. In 2007, he became co-owner and director of 15th Art Production, a company specialized in film and TV production in Zagreb, Croatia. From 2011 to 2016 he was the President of Croatian Producers Association (HRUP) and today he is still active in the association as a member of the Supervisory Board. In 2018. He was participant of EAVE producer workshop.
Where are we at?
Production budget: 280.000,00 EUR
Needed for completion: 35.000,00 EUR
Territories available: Worldwide
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Production company profile
Production company 15TH ART PRODUCTIONS (PETNAESTA UMJETNOST D.O.O.), based in Zagreb, Croatia, was founded in 2007 by producer Hrvoje Osvadić and director Goran Dević. Initially, the company was mainly dedicated to the production of documentaries, but it has recently expanded its catalog to fiction films as well. The company has produced around 25 documentaries and fiction films.