A year in Serbian prison rehab where the only escape is through someone else's eyes.
Flawed life choices of a provincial student who studied in the capital led to him being sentenced to one year in prison with mandatory drug treatment. The film follows him moving from his prison cell to serve out his sentence in the prison's attached treatment hospital.
Acting
Milisavljević's wordless breakdown in the courtyard.
Direction
Dual directors somehow make bureaucracy feel intimate.
Director
Mirko Abrlić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in an actual functioning Serbian prison hospital; Abrlić spent months negotiating access with the Ministry of Justice.
The directors cast real recovering addicts in supporting roles—Lazar Miljković (Laki) was six months out of treatment during filming.
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