News
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Award - Best Eastern European Film at Santa Barbara!
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Monte Carlo: Award for Best Screenplay !
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Great review at Cleveland Int Film Fest!
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"Monument" to open À l'Est, du Nouveau Festival. France!
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At Newport Beach Festival 2015 - Tue, April 28th
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2 Awards at Nashville Festival! Grand Jury Prize + Best Actor Award!!!
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France: Grand Jury Prize at A l'Est du Nouveau, Rouen,
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At GoEast, Germany
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Russia: "Monument" wins Best Script Award at VOICES Fest
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HBO picks up Monument to Michael Jackson!
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Monument screens at Tehran Int Festival, Iran
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Variety review of Monument to Michael Jackson
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HBO picks up Monument to Michael Jackson!
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Peru; Review at El Peruano "He'll be there"
The Story
In a dying town in Serbia, an old communist-era monument is removed from the Square. Marko, daydreamer, is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. She is disappointed in him and the life in Serbian small-town. Out of despair, he comes up with the idea to replace the communist-era statue with a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his dying town and seduce his wife again. Marko convinces his close friends to help him. But the town’s mayor has his own plans and uses right-wing group “Clean Serbia” to crash Marko’s dream.
Desperate, Marko falsifies Michael Jackson’s letter and convinces the mayor and everybody else that Jackson will come to the monument’s unveiling. The town is now revitalized and its citizens full of hope while Marko regains the love of his wife. But on the big day, the death of real Michael Jackson’s is announced without him knowing it. The group “Clean Serbia” creates the chaos. The insane turn of events unexpectedly leads to the fulfillment of Marko’s plan, but in an absurd and darkly ironic fashion.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
The Monument to Michael Jackson” is a comedy inspired by bizarre trend happening recently in small towns of Serbia and Balkans: people building monuments to Hollywood and pop-icons (Rocky, Tarzan, Bruce Lee…).
Marko, an optimistic daydreamer, has a simple plan: he wants to breathe life into his dying Serbian hometown by building a monument to Michael Jackson.
Background: In the last twenty years Serbia has repeatedly lost wars, changed its name, borders, flags and anthems. The World War II heroes of the socialist Yugoslavia are not politically correct anymore. Their monuments are being removed. Ironically, the recent bloody civil wars did not leave did not leave behind any new heroes to celebrate. So, in such hero-less world, it is only rational that people would resort to crazy idea of building monuments to “safe”, lifeless heroes, such as Hollywood movie characters ( Rocky, Tarzan, Bruce Lee). Ironically, the innocent monument to Michael Jackson would stir everything up and unexpectedly bring ever present demons up to the surface. Paradoxically it will help to create a new hero. Marko is a tragic-comic, Don Quixote-like character that sticks to his idealism to the very end. It is a dark comedy, where the lead character is a common man who dies for trivial idea. Both, the character and the idea got transcendent in a process, and at the end, they become something much bigger, something historic and monumental.
Cast
LIST OF CAST MEMBERS
MARKO Boris Milivojevic
LJUBINKA Natasa Tapuskovic
DUSAN Dragan Bjelogrlic
DOKI Toni Mihajlovski
DRAGAN Branislav Trifunovic
DARINKA Mirjana Karanovic
PRIEST Ljubomir Bandovic
LUKA Marko Janketic
JELENA Emilija Terzic
TYCOON Srdjan Miletic
OFFICER PENEV Petar Mircevski
SLAVKA Ana Divac
Trailers
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Filmmakers
- Darko Lungulov - Director / Writer / Producer
- Snezana Penev - Producer
- Mathias Schoeningh - Director of photography
- Kiril Spaseski - Production Designer
- Dejan Urosevic - Editor
- Zora Mojsilovic - Costume Designer
- Dejan Pejovic - Composer
- Suzana Peric - Music Editor
- Igor Popovski - Sound recordist
- Hrvoje Stefotic - Sound Designer
- Filip Dedic- Co-editor
- Marin Juranic - Co-editor
- Felix Eisele - Co-Producer (GER)
- Katja Siegel - Co-Producer (GER)
- Ognen Antov- Co-Producer (MKD)
- Aneta Lesnikovska - Co-Producer (MKD)
- Boris T. Matic - Co-Producer (Croatia)
- Mike Downey - Executive Producer (UK)
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