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 THE
FOURTH MAN
(Cetvrti Covek)
Serbia, feature, 2007; 107 min
In Serbian with English sub-titles
Director: Dejan Zec˙evic´
Screenwriters: Dejan Zec˙evic´ and Boban Jevtic´
Producers: Z˙eljko Mitrovic´, Slobodan Jocic´, Dénes
Szekeres, Nikolina Vuc˙etic´
Executive Producer: Marko Jocic
Production Companies: Pink Films Intl., Viktorija Film, Tivoli-Filmproductions
Camera: Goran Volarevic´
Editor: Marko Glus˙ac
Music: Nemanja Mosurovic´, Slobodan Negic´
Cast: Nikola Kojo, Bogdan Diklic´, Marija Karan, Dragan
Petrovic´
Synopsis
Lazar (Nikola Kojo) wakes up in hospital after
a two-month coma suffering from total amnesia. He slowly
starts to piece together his past, trying to discover who he was and how
he came to be shot
in the head at point blank range. Through flashbacks and
encounters with politicians, military officers, businessmen, and mafiosos,
Lazar discovers
his violent past. Director Dejan Zec˙evic´ interweaves Lazar’s
personal story with Serbian national history, so that Lazar’s quest
for self-knowledge illuminates Serbia’s darkest days in the Balkan
wars. The actions of victims and perpetrators, individuals and government
authorities are explored with a frankness that elevates the film’s
slick thriller conventions to the realm of the political. With an accomplished
cast, expert direction and a supremely suspenseful story, The Fourth
Man demonstrates once again that in addition to art cinema the Balkans can also
produce outstanding genre films.
Festivals:
2009 Cape Winelands Film Festival
2009 Bangalooru International Film Festival
2008 Kolkata Film Festival
2008 Chennai International Film Festival
2008 Molodist International Film Festival, Kiev
2008 Haifa International Film Festival
2008 Raindance Film Festival
2008 Warsaw Film Festival
2008 Sarajevo Film Festival
2008 Montreal World Film Festival
2008 Vancouver Serbian FilmFest
Director Dejan Zec˙evic´
Dejan Zec˙evic´ holds a degree in film and television directing from the
Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He is one of the most prolific Serbian
directors despite being only 35 years old, having directed five feature films,
several shorts, a segment in an omnibus film, a television film and several TV
series. He has participated in over a dozen foreign film festivals. In national
festivals his films have received more than twenty prizes. These include the
Belgrade Short Film Festival award for Nekrofilm, the Grand Prix at the Belgrade
International Film d'Auteur Festival for Decak iz Junkovca, the Golden Mimosa
for Directing at the Herceg Novi FF and the Grand Prix at the Ravenna Film Festival
for TT. Sindrom, the Novi Sad Arena award for best directing for Mala
Nocna Muzika,
as well as the FIPRESCI 2002 and 2007 Best Director awards.
Select Filmography:
Little night music, 2002
T.T. syndrome, 2002
Buy me Elliott, 1998
A boy from Junkovac, 1995
DVD Source:
Nikolina Vucetic, Producer
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