A director's past comes knocking—and everyone's wearing his old costumes.
A successful stage director plans to put on an outdoor production of a previously unknown play by a famous writer, but is haunted by his past in the form of the actors and crew with whom he has to work.
Direction
Burger blurs theatre and reality until you can't tell the exits.
Acting
Rundek carries decades of unspoken history in every gesture.
Director
Janez Burger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Slovenia's crumbling industrial landscapes, the film captures post-Yugoslav artistic anxiety where culture tries to rebuild itself on literal ruins.
Darko Rundek was primarily a musician; Burger cast him after seeing his theatrical stage presence—those 'haunted' eyes weren't acting, according to crew interviews.
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