A mother, a lover, a bribe — choose your poison.
Caught amid a violent corruption affair, a young woman is forced to make an impossible choice between the man she obsessively loves and her newborn son.
Acting
Maruša Majer's silent devastation carries every frame.
Direction
Burger's claustrophobic framing traps you with her.
Writing
The choice is rigged from the first scene.
Director
Janez Burger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Slovenia's 2017 corruption scandals echo through the film's bureaucratic menace; Burger shot in real government buildings to capture institutional rot.
The title 'Ivan' names the son Mara barely holds — emphasizing his absence, his weight, his erasure from the choice she must make.
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