New Feature Movie Shooting Starts in Skopje Today - First Shot of “Bal-Can-Can” by Darko Mitrevski
(Vest, 02.09.2003) - Shooting of a feature movie, “Bal-Can-Can,” based on a script of and directed by Darko Mitrevski, is starting in Skopje today. This is Mitrevski second film after his debut “Farewell 20th Century” in 1998.
“This is a black comedy. The story starts in 1957 in Skopje and immediately moves to 2001, during the armed conflict in Macedonia. Yet this is not a film about the conflict in Macedonia rather than the small people who have never been in the spotlight of the newspaper and have never appeared on TV in prime time. Nobody knows them though they have their own respective interesting stories. Initially, the film is funny, then the audience breaks into laughter only to feel guilt in the end for having laughed. But it does finish with a happy end.
The cast includes: Vlado Jovanovski, Zvezda Angelovska, Toni Mihajlovski, Petar Arsovski, Emil Ruben, Adolpho Marggiota, Nikola Kojo, Branko Gjuric-Gjura, Antonela Troize, Petar Bozovic, Dejan Akimovic, Vasko Todorov, Branko Ognjanovski, Goran Ilic, Ljuran Ahmeti, Seka Sabljic, Kiril Pop-Hristov, Miodrag Krivokapic, Nadzi Saban, ladimir Endrovski, Risto Gogovski, Dimitar Stankovski and Irena Ristic.
The director of photography is Suki Medencevic who has shot Ivo Trajkov’s “The Great Water.” The stage designer is Bujar Muca, costume designer Zaklina Krstevska and film editing is by Italian Giacobe Gamberini. The author of music is Kiril Dzajkovski.
The shooting is scheduled to take 52 days in locations in Skopje and the surroundings. The main producer is Mitrevski’s Partisans, and the co-producers are Verdechi Film in Rome and Arna Film in London. The budget for the film is still kept secret and it is only known that the Macedonian Ministry of Culture has supported the film with 500,000 euros.
The postproduction will be made at Photo Sine in Rome, and the producers are expecting for the premiere to be next year in one of the world festivals.
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