DEVIL`S TOWN

film DEVIL`S TOWN (Đavolja varoš)
  • Original title: Đavolja varoš
  • Type: feature film
  • Year: 2009
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Country: Serbia
  • Language: Serbian
  • Length: 82 min
  • Directed by: Vladimir Paskaljević
DEVIL'S TOWN is stylish comedy that satirizes contemporary Serbian society.It is structured as multiple story film with various related characters whose paths criss-cross in a single day when entire nation is glued to the TV sets, watching national tennis stars playing in a major tournament. The Devil's Town is a film about people driven only by their basic needs, deep instincts, obsessions, ambitions, fears and frustrations. A businessman who can't avoid corruption... A poor girl trying to afford tennis equipment at any price... A rich teenager who can't buy himself love... Rich prostitutes pretending to be happy... A taxi driver who blames the rest of the world for his personal misfortune. Dynamic, unpredictable plot and matching-action cutting makes 82 minutes of the film very intense and drammatic.
  • Screenplay: Vladimir Paskaljević
  • Cast: Lazar Ristovski, Slavko Štimac, Goran Jevtić, Mira Banjac, Vlasta Velisavljević, Nebojša Milovanović
  • Production company: MT Images (Belgrade, Serbia), Nova Film (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • Producers: Milan Tomić
  • IFF Rotterdam Rotterdam The Netherlands - 2009
  • Cinema City IFF Novi Sad Serbia - 2009
  • Palm Springs International Film Festival California USA - 2010
  • Trieste Film Festival Trieste Italy - 2010