The Abandoned (2010 film)

The Abandoned
Directed by Adis Bakrač
Produced by Almir Šahinović
Page Ostrow
Marie-Anne Coste
Zoran Tasić
Marijo Vukadin
Written by Zlatko Topčić
Starring Mira Furlan
Tony Grga
Mirsad Tuka
Mirela Lambić
Dragan Marinković
Meto Jovanovski
Zijah Sokolović
Music by Vlado Podany
Cinematography Vladan Radović
Edited by Michko Netchak
Production
company
HEFT Production
Olimp Production
Dari Films & Seasons (Paris)
A + D Films
Distributed by HEFT Production
Summer Hill Films (US)
Release date
Running time
 88 minutes
Country Bosnia-Herzegovina
France
Croatia
Language Bosnian
Budget $5 million
Box office $26.1 million

The Abandoned (Bosnian: Ostavljeni) is a 2010 Bosnian film directed by Adis Bakrač, produced by Almir Šahinović and Hollywood producer Page Ostrow.[2]

The film stars Mira Furlan, Tony Grga, Mirsad Tuka, Mirela Lambić, Dragan Marinković, Meto Jovanovski and Zijah Sokolović and was written by Zlatko Topčić. The film is a Croatian-French co-production. Topčić's script caught the attention of producers after winning the 2003 CineLink Screenwriting Competition.[3][4][5][6][7]

The Abandoned is the story of a boy from a home for abandoned children who tries to find out the truth about his origins.[8]

The film premiered at the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival[9][10][11][12][13] on July 8, 2010. The film's US premiere was at the 2011 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (California).[14][15][16]

Tony Grga, who played a thirteen-year-old boy Alen, won the Golden Arena for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 2010 Pula Film Festival.[17][18][19][20]

Plot and themes

The story begins in the woods in Bosnia in 1993, when a woman gives birth to a baby boy. The story then jumps to 2007. The boy, Alen (Tony Grga), now thirteen, lives in a children's home in Sarajevo.

The former director of the home, Gago (Meto Jovanovski), had told Alen that his mother was French and his father was English, and that they met as war reporters in Sarajevo, but due to the war and professional obligations they had temporarily left him in the home.

Alen writes letters to his mother and gives them to educator Cica (Mira Furlan), to be sent to his mother in France. However, Cica places all the letters of children in a drawer, because in reality there is no one to send them to. A new director, Mirza (Mirsad Tuka), who is a young and capable educator, comes to the home.

Near the home is a shop owned by Šento (Dragan Marinković). The children steal expensive items from the shop. After a botched jewel robbery, police investigate, and Alen worries that they will link him to the robbery. When he gains access to the police files, he discovers the real address of his mother, and he leaves the home to find her.[1][21][22]

Cast and characters

  • Tony Grga as Alen Domić, the main character, a boy from the children's home
  • Mira Furlan as Cica, an educator
  • Mirsad Tuka as Mirza Alijagić, director of the home
  • Mirela Lambić as Amila, Alen's mother
  • Dragan Marinković as Šento, shop owner, a criminal
  • Meto Jovanovski as Gago, former director of the home
  • Zijah Sokolović as Muamer, Amila's husband
  • Žan Marolt as guard
  • Faketa Salihbegović-Avdagić as cook
  • Ejla Tarakčija-Bavčić as mrs. Tufekčić
  • Nermin Omić as mr. Tufekčić
  • Alma Terzić as Zana, girl from the home
  • Haris Burina as Mehmed, salesman
  • Alen Goro as youngster, Muamer's son
  • Ivana Petrović as girl, Muamer's daughter[1]
  • Rijad Mašović-Riči as drug dealer
  • Alija Aljović as policeman
  • Nela Dženisijević as policewoman

Production

Filming

Principal photography began in 2007 in Sarajevo.

Release

The Abandoned was released on July 8, 2010, by HEFT Production and Summer Hill Films (US). It was released to cinemas throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina on December 7, 2010.[23]

Music

Musician Vlado Podany worked on the soundtrack for the film.

Awards

Wins

Nominations

Reception

The film garnered positive reviews by world audiences and critics,[17] and recorded a large profit (after Remake, the highest-grossing film, from ex-YU region, ever). It is one of the most awarded Bosnian and ex-YU films. The Abandoned was named as the best Bosnian film at the Ex-YU Fest in 2010.[29]

Alissa Simon of Variety wrote that it calls attention to "the plight of children born of rape during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina", but described it as a "well-meaning but overdone melodrama".[30] Fedeora said that "the film succeeds in being both a touching personal story but also a trenchant comment on the Bosnian war".[31]

Screenwriter Zlatko Topčić described the film as a "look at the Bosnian war through the eyes of a boy who was born not as the fruit of love, but of hatred, and is part of a whole new people, nameless and unwanted, whose mothers were raped, and the search for identity, the search for his biological parents, who, each with his or her own reasons, do not want him - him, clean, sinless, innocent in everything, uninvolved in the sins of other."[32]

The film's world premiere was at the 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where the film received a 15 minute standing ovation.

It was screened at over 80 international film festivals around the world, including the Pula Film Festival, Amiens International Film Festival, SEE A Paris Film Festival,[33] Haifa International Film Festival, Cinema City Film Festival, Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival, Balkan New Film Festival, Alexandria International Film Festival, Tirana International Film Festival, Transilvania International Film Festival, Ljubljana International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival[34] and many others.

It was screened at festivals in the Czech Republic, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Israel, Croatia, Egypt,[35] France, Serbia and United States.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Abandoned (Bare Skin) (Ostavljeni)". cineuropa.org. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Abandoned". hollywood.com. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "SFF: 14 polufinalista Cinelinka". klix.ba. 26 May 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "SFF: Glavni žiri CineLinka izabrao 6 projekata". klix.ba. 24 June 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "SFF: Skript doktori započeli rad sa finalistima CineLinka". klix.ba. 2 July 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Završen CineLinkov program usavršavanja scenarija". klix.ba. 9 July 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "Prvi bh. nacionalni filmski festival". klix.ba. 2 June 2003. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "Ostavljeni – TV film". tvprofil.net. TVprofil. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Croatia includes minority co-productions in Pula national competition". screendaily.com. 25 June 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "Twelve world premieres among competition titles at Karlovy Vary". screendaily.com. 22 June 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "KVIFF PROGRAMME". kviff.com. 8 July 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  12. ↑ "Svjetska premijera filma "Ostavljeni" Adisa Bakrača". klix.ba. 1 July 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "Bosanski film s Mirom Furlan u Karlovyim Varyma". tportal.hr. 5 July 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  14. ↑ "The Abandoned (Ostavljeni)". independent.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  15. ↑ "2011 film and award history". sbiff.org. 2 February 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  16. ↑ ""Ostavljeni" Adisa Bakrača na festivalu u Santa Barbari". klix.ba. 7 January 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  17. 1 2 ""Ostavljeni" nagrađeni bučnim aplauzom". klix.ba. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  18. ↑ Holdsworth, Nick (July 26, 2010). "'Between Us' is lauded in Croatia". Variety. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  19. ↑ "57th Pula Film Festival — Croatia". Pula Filmf Festival. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  20. ↑ "Mladi Sarajlija Tony Grga - dobitnik Zlatne Arene (INTERVJU)". Radio Sarajevo. 24 July 2010. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  21. ↑ "Hollywood movie money: The Abandoned (Ostavljeni)". hollywoodmoviemoney.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  22. ↑ "Bh. filmovi: Najkvalitetniji domaći proizvod u svijetu". radiosarajevo.ba. 24 March 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  23. ↑ "Film o dječaku kojeg je majka ostavila u Domu za siročad". klix.ba. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  24. ↑ "Ostavljeni (OSTAVLJENI) – Film". mojtv.hr. MojTV. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  25. ↑ "Adis Bakrač nagrađen za film "Ostavljeni"". klix.ba. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  26. ↑ "Bakraču i filmu "Ostavljeni" nagrada u Portugalu". klix.ba. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  27. ↑ "Filmu "Ostavljeni" specijalna nagrada za hrabrost". klix.ba. 1 July 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  28. ↑ "Film "Ostavljeni" received an award". sarajevotimes.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  29. ↑ "Film "Ostavljeni" predstavlja BiH na Ex YU Festu". klix.ba. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  30. ↑ "Review: "The Abandoned"". variety.com. 15 July 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  31. ↑ "Fedeoras first awards". fedeora.eu. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  32. ↑ "The Abandoned". filmneweurope.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  33. ↑ "Program 2011". SEE A PARIS. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  34. ↑ "The Abandoned (Ostavljeni)". stlbosnians.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  35. ↑ "Filmovi "Ostavljeni" i "Cirkus Columbija" u Aleksandriji". klix.ba. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
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