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Actualisé le 15.02.2008
Srdjan Sarenac
Réalisateur / Long métrage / Bosnie
Langues parlées : Serbe, Bosniaque, Anglais
"THE RESCUED" - Long métrage fiction
Orphaned Bosnian refugee MARKO (29) feels guilty over the loss of his parents in the war in Sarajevo. He processes his war trauma obsessively rescuing suicide jumpers. Marko lives in the shack and comforts himself by reading and re-reading letters that have been sent to him by friends and families of suicide jumpers he has saved. But when he fails to rescue suicide jumper ANA (24) his past comes back to haunt him and he feels compelled to find out who she was. When Marko discovers that Ana has in fact survived he tries to help her in getting visa to Canada. Ana wants to go to Canada to join Kokan, businessman who was taking care of her and paying all her expenses.Marko can get immigration visa to Canada using his refugee status and trauma he carries.They gradually fall in love with each other and he begins to overcome his trauma. He who worked as a river rescuer is being rescued.
Born in 1977 in Sarajevo, Srdjan Sarenac received MA in Film and TV directing at Belgrade Film Academy.
In 2003, he wrote and directed Poklon za Sanju (A Present For Sanja), which was selected for 10 international film
festivals and broadcasted on national television.
In 2005, he directed the documentary Selma - the best ballad written by Goran Bregovic-, who received a public
award for Best Movie shown out of official selection at the Documentary and Short Croatian Film Festival, in Zagreb.
Srdjan started to develop his first feature, Spaseni (The Rescued) who won "la Bourse d'Aide au Développement,
28ème Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier 2006. The Rescued participated at:
- final selection of Balkan Film Fund at 46th Thessaloniki Film Festival 2005
- CineLink at 13th Sarajevo Film Festival
- was developed at Binger Film lab from March to July 2006
- selected for Program Odyssey (ACCR) 2007 at the Moulin d'Andé-CÉCI
- selected for Talent Project Market at Berlin co production market 2007
The Rescued is a story of healing a war trauma in post-war society. When the war had begun in former Yugoslavia I was in besieged Sarajevo, and after I left town I became a refugee in Croatia together with my mother and brother. My father stayed in Sarajevo until the end of the war. He was hit by a shell in 1995 and is now ninety percent disabled. My mother does not use the elevator, she still has a trauma from the war. The war trauma of my family had inspired me to wrote the screenplay *The Rescued*. Marko, the main character is also a refugee from Sarajevo like I was.He carries his war trauma deep inside himself that he was responsible for death of his parents on the bridge during war in Sarajevo.Rescuing suicide jumpers he pushes his war trauma inside himself and each time he saves one more person he feels better. Saving people damages him.The movie will start in winter when weather is cloudy and Marko as traumatized people will not have his shadow.Through love with Ana he will be able to face with his past and he he who worked as a rescuer will finally be rescued.At the end of the movie when Marko realese his trauma, sun will appear on the sky and Marko will finally have his shadow as a healed person.With this movie I want to show what we have gone through.I want to give voice to people living in postwar society that there is a solution for their inner problems caused by war and postwar chaos. We mustn't try to forget the past, we need to face the past in order to live today.
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