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Directed by
  
Dalibor Matanić

Country
  
Croatia

Initial release
  
22 July 2010

Producer
  
Ankica Juric-Tilic

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Running time
  
107 mins

Language
  
Director
  
Dalibor Matanić

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Productioncompany
  
Kinorama, Hrvatska Radiotelevizija (HRT)

Release date
  
July 22, 2010 (2010-07-22) (Croatia)

Screenplay
  
Dalibor Matanić, Tomislav Zajec

Music director
  
Jura Ferina, Pavao Miholjević

Cast
  
Marija Škaričić, Janko Popovic Volaric, Krešimir Mikić, Judita Frankovic, Noa Nikolic

Similar
  
The Lika Cinema, Cashier Wants to Go to the, 100 Minutes of Glory, I Love You, Fine Dead Girls

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Mother of Asphalt (Croatian: Majka asfalta) is a 2010 Croatian film directed by Dalibor Matanić. The film is a run-of-the mill social melodrama that highlights the materialistic aspirations of a young couple in their mid thirties and who are unable to perceive the emotional impact and the consequences thereof.

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Majka asfalta mutter des asphalts mother of asphalt


Plot

Mare and Janko are a young married couple and both are working. They have a son, Bruno, who is 7 years old. With materialistic aspirations they have acquired an upscale flat in Zagreb on loan basis. Suddenly, just before Christmas, Mare loses her secretarial job. She becomes restless. As she returns home, after a dinner party her husband does not sympathize with her plight but tries to force himself on her for his carnal pleasures. When Mare resists, Janko is furious and beats her up; the scene is set in a silhouetted night sequence with Christmas lights visible at the window. Mare unable to bear the marital torture leaves her husband and goes out of the house with her son in midnight. She seeks shelter with her friend who is not very sympathetic with the step taken by her friend. But her friend's husband is not sympathetic to Milan and asks her to leave the house. She then starts living in her car. She spends the day wandering in the street of Zagreb telling her young son that they are on an "adventure". On Christmas night, Milan, a security guard at a store who is single and quite unimpressive, sees Mare and her son living a crammed space in the car. As a good samaritan, he offers them shelter in the store which he is guarding.

Cast

  • Marija Škaričić as Mare
  • Janko Popović Volarić as Janko
  • Noa Nikolic as Bruno
  • Krešimir Mikić as Milan
  • Ozren Grabaric as citizen
  • Judita Franković as Iva
  • Lana Barić as Višnja
  • Production

    The film is produced by Ankica Juric Tilic for "Kinorama" and Hrvatska Radiotelevizija and directed by Dalibor Matanic who has also provided the screenplay with Tomislav Zajec. Tomislav Pavlic is the editor. Music score is provided by Jura Ferina and Pavao Miholjevic. It has a run time of 104 minutes.

    Awards

    The film has received the following awards:

  • Golden FIPA 2011 awards
  • Fiction: Actress Marija Skaricic, Croatia
  • Fiction, Dalibor Matanic
  • Fiction: Music, Jura Ferina, Pavle Miholjevic
  • Pula Film Festival 2010
  • Best Actress in a Leading Role: Marija Skaricic
  • References

    Mother of Asphalt Wikipedia


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