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INSTITUTION AND ThE fUTURE OPENS UP
IN A COmPLETELy DIffERENT wAy. DO
yOU fEEL ThIS?
Through this movie, I got several opportunities for further work.
I am currently preparing a new movie based on the Feri LainšËek
novel ‘The Untouchables’ - the issue of the movie is how far the
protagonist is prepared to follow his dreams, how much he is
prepared to pledge. The story is set in Prekmurje from 1970-95, and
is about a gipsy who starts to build his own village in the system
that has enabled him to build illegally, and then it all goes bad with
the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
yOU REmAIN REALISTIC, DESPITE ThE
GREAT SUCCESS.
How else should I be?! It is impossible to live off a movie in Slovenia.
I work at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television as
assistant professor for direction. I also work at Radio-Television
Slovenia, directing numerous broadcasts. I am not burdened with
the question of whether I am a director who will get their next
movie project in 10 years, but I will certainly be on the lookout for
the next movie opportunity. I do not lack the inspiration. I have had
it since I was small, so deciding what to study was not difficult.
AND SOmEThING ON yOUR mOVIE PLANS?
ARE yOU ATTRACTED TO wORkING
ABROAD?
My work is project work. I would consider a proposal from abroad
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as such, as work on a project. When it is finished, you no longer
have work. If someone proposed a project, I would of course accept
it. I always get work on the basis of a concluded project. Conditions
abroad would, of course, be better, and if I returned something to
Slovenia in the form of work and new knowledge, I would also be
very pleased.
At the Slovenian Film Festival in October last year in
Portorož, ‘Rooster’s Breakfast Movie’ received the
Audience Award and the main Awards for Best Script
and Direction (Marko Naberšnik), Leading Actor (Vlado
Novak), while Pia ZemljiË took the Stop Award for Best
Actress of the Year. Director Marko Naberšnik also
received the Stop Viktor Award for Special Achievement
in 2007. In terms of ticket sales, the film beat Pirates of the
Caribbean and Mr. Bean’s Holiday, which were the only
movies last year exceeding selling over 100,000, and it
officially became the most viewed Slovenian movie, and
rising to be the third most viewed movie in Slovenia,
since the precise statistics of cinema-goers has been
calculated - it outdid ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone’ (173,999); ahead of ‘Rooster’s Breakfast’ are Troy
with 187,507, and ‘Titanic’ with 411,373.
Feri LainšËek: ≈I am absolutely enthusiastic about Naberšnik’s
approach. I have trusted him since the beginning, and now it shows
that his apparently easy direction hides many deliberate and lucid
approaches. The fact that the movie affects spectators as desired is
primarily to the credit of successful direction strategies and tactics
- in short, something still to be credited to Marko Naberšnik. I am
satisfied with Naberšnik’s script; it is even better than I could have
done it myself. I am also enraptured with the excellent cast, and I
am glad that after the novelistic story, a true story from Murska
Sobota lived to see the movie format as well.√
The story is set in Gornja Radgona, where young Gjuro
starts to work as an apprentice under master Gajaš,
the elderly owner of a garage. Gajaš offers him a small
room and Gjuro moves in. When she damages her car
in a car accident, Bronja comes to the garage, who is
married to Lepec, local ruffian, pimp and organiser of
musical events in the area. Feelings arise between her
and the young Gjuro and the hidden relationship soon
takes its toll.
Meanwhile, master Gajaš dreams about Severina, a
Croatian singer who is on tour in Slovenia and stops in
Gornja Radgona. For him, Severina is a goddess, a dream
woman embodying all his unfulfilled desires. The, at first
innocent, play of fantasies becomes entangled with the
real life of the main characters.
The term “rooster’s breakfast” is a popular designation
for morning sex. It is also used by the companionship
of motor mechanic Gajaš who is the main hero of the
LainšËek’s novel. The story centres around the garage
where the heroes dream about love, cars and friendship.
One of the objects of desire in the book is the Croatian
pop star, Severina, who is the ideal of woman’s beauty
for all “small heroes”.
The leading roles are played by Primož Bezjak, Vlado
Novak, Pia ZemljiË, Dario Varga, Janez ©kof, and Davor
JanjiÊ; Severina plays herself. The music is by Saša
LošiÊ.