29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker

An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker

Danis Tanović / Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia, Italy / 2013 / 74 min.


synopsis

This film, which was awarded at this year’s Berlinale, reconstructs a real story using its authentic Roma protagonists. Nazif’s odyssey for saving his beloved wife after the hospital refuses to perform a lifesaving procedure because he has no money is a strong social drama set on a stage of poverty, while at the same time avoiding stereotypical depictions of the gypsy mentality.

The hopelessness of this alarming look at human indifference is subversively tempered by the depth of the protagonists’ love, in the name of which Nazif spends hours in freezing junkyards searching for “money-giving” scrap iron.

more about film

director: Danis Tanović
producer: Danijel Hočevar
script: Danis Tanović

contact

Film Distribution Artcam
Radek Rubáš
Rašínovo nábřeží 6, 128 00 Praha, Czech Republic
radek.rubas@artcam.cz
+(420) 777161402

Film at festival

festival edition:2013
section:Special Event
language:Romany, Bosnian
subtitles:Czech
colour:Colour

Info

director:Danis Tanović
original title:Epizoda u životu berača željeza
country:Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia, Italy
year:2013
running time:74 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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