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Ordinary people
Title
Ordinary people [electronic resource] / by Vladimir Perisic.
Published
San Francisco : Global Lens, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (79 min.).
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Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 9, 2014).
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (New world cinema: independent features & shorts, 1990-present). Available via World Wide Web.
This edition in Serbian with English subtitles.
Won 2009 Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema Grand Prize, Best Film; Won 2009 Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema Special Prize, Outstanding Actor; Won 2010 Miami International Film Festival Cineuropa Prize; Won 2009 Sarajevo Film Festival Best Actor Award; Won 2009 Sarajevo Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize; Won 2009 Sarajevo Film Festival Heart of Sarajevo Award, Best Film; Nominated 2009 Stockholm Film Festival Bronze Horse Award; Won 2010 Trieste Film Festival Special Mention Award, Best Film
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Summary
On a seemingly average day, a busload of young soldiers is sent to a remote location in the countryside and given a macabre task: the execution of a number of civilians. Dzoni, a green recruit, initially objects, but as he moves from one killing to the next, he is swept up by the spectre of military authority, and quickly becomes desensitized by the apparently routine nature of his task. As he nears the end of his assignment, the quiet horror of the day slowly begins to affect him, forcing a painful reconciliation with his actions. Set in an unspecified time of conflict in the Balkans, director Vladimir Perisic's highly attuned and unsentimental lens captures the psychological toll of war on its participants, and the universal struggle of all soldiers to reconcile morality with action.
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Obicni ljudi
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Previously released as DVD.
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Images / Online / Video & Film
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July 14, 2014
Series
New world cinema: independent features & shorts, 1990-present
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