White is washed to ninety
Slovenia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Italy, Montenegro, Croatia / 2025 / 144 minutes
Directed By Marko Nabershnik
📌Script: Marko Naberšnik, Bronja Žakelj, after the novel by Bronje Žakelj
/ Cast: Anica Dobra, Iva Krajnc Bagola, Jurij Zrinec, Lea Cok, Polona Juh, Sasha Tabakovi/, Tjasa Zheleznik, Vladimir Tintor
Genre: Drama
/ Distribution: Fivia
A touching, humorous and inspiring film about facing the disease. The story follows Bronja through various periods of her life. After losing her mother to cancer in her childhood, she has to face this insidious disease in her youth. Despite numerous and almost insurmountable challenges, Bronja tackles them with a mixture of tears, laughter and unflinching optimism. The Film is based on a true story and autobiographical novel of the same title. He has already gone through nine reprints.
The role of Bronja's father is played by Jurij Zrnec, the main role is played by Lea Cok, who portrayed the older Bronja, and the younger version of the writer was played by Mei Rabic. The younger brother Rok was portrayed by Yak Mehla, and the older brother by Ziga Shorli. In the role of Bronja's mother, Tjasa Zheleznik appears, grandma is Anica good. Sasha Tabakovi and Iva Krajnc Bagola also appear as close relatives in the film.
"I want to convey to the film the spirit of some past, joint time in the eighties and nineties. This time is in some way a common denominator for Slovenians, because we had no choices and we all lived in much the same way. / ... / Mark and I thought it was very important to fit the period well into the film. This world, that time of childhood, was very important to me. Not only because we were all together then, because mom was still alive and our kitchen was warm and full, but also because for me it was a time of unconditional love, security and elementary happiness. It's about the time when I put all the good cards in my pockets that I could put on the table later, when life wanted to wipe me out of the game. / ... / The most important thing for us was to stay true to the novel at key points, to touch on some important life topics, to preserve the spirit and message of the story, and not to get into pathos and caricature. And when we had these foundations laid, we started writing. / ... / It's really a surreal feeling when a movie about the life you've already lived starts spinning in front of you. When you watch a movie you're in, but you're not there at the same time. I have to say, this is pretty complicated for me. Because everything happens again. All beautiful, but also all severe.«
- Bronja Jakelj
"Bronja's novel has in it light, lightness and, at times, wit in the way it portrays events. / ... / The collective memories originating from the former Yugoslavia are still alive. The film thus shows part of the social constructs around austerity measures, petrol vouchers and buying goods in Italy. But this is only part of the story. Just enough present to mark the historical time in which the film takes place. Otherwise, we focused more on the family story. / ... / We tried to make sense of tragic events through the spiritual development of Man: Death is a part of us, and not every death is the end of the world. In the story, we witness death, which for the heroine means premature growing up, death, which represents a complete shock, and death, which is a natural departure from this world. So not all tragic events are the same.«
- Marko Nabershnik
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Belo se pere na devetdeset
Slovenija, Srbija, Severna Makedonija, Italija, Črna gora, Hrvaška / 2025 / 144 minut
📌Režija: Marko Naberšnik
📌Scenarij: Marko Naberšnik, Bronja Žakelj po istoimenskem romanu Bronje Žakelj
📌Igrajo: Anica Dobra, Iva Krajnc Bagola, Jurij Zrnec, Lea Cok, Polona Juh, Saša Tabaković, Tjaša Železnik, Vladimir Tintor
📌Žanr: Drama
📌Distribucija: Fivia
Ganljiv, humoren in navdihujoč film o soočanju z boleznijo. Zgodba spremlja Bronjo skozi različna obdobja njenega življenja. Potem ko v otroštvu zaradi raka izgubi mamo, se mora v mladosti s to zahrbtno boleznijo soočiti še sama. Kljub številnim in skoraj nepremostljivim izzivom se Bronja z njimi spoprijema z mešanico solz, smeha in neomajnega optimizma. Film temelji na resnični zgodbi in avtobiografskem romanu z istim naslovom. Doživel je že devet ponatisov.
V vlogi Bronjinega očeta nastopa Jurij Zrnec, v glavni vlogi igra Lea Cok, ki je upodobila starejšo Bronjo, mlajšo verzijo pisateljice pa je zaigrala Mei Rabič. Mlajšega brata Roka je upodobil Jaka Mehle, starejšega pa Žiga Šorli. V vlogi Bronjine mame nastopa Tjaša Železnik, babica je Anica Dobra. Kot ožja sorodnika se v filmu pojavita še Saša Tabaković in Iva Krajnc Bagola.
»Želim si, da bi na film prenesli duh nekega preteklega, skupnega časa v osemdesetih in devetdesetih letih. Ta čas je za Slovence na neki način skupni imenovalec, saj nismo imeli nobenih izbir in smo vsi živeli na približno enak način. /…/ Z Markom se nama je zdelo zelo pomembno, da obdobje dobro uvrstiva v film. Ta svet, tisti čas otroštva je bil namreč zame zelo pomemben. Ne samo zato, ker smo bili takrat še vsi skupaj, ker je bila mama še živa in naša kuhinja topla in polna, ampak tudi zato, ker je bil zame to čas brezpogojne ljubezni, varnosti in elementarne sreče. Gre za čas, ko sem v žepe pospravila vse dobre karte, ki sem jih lahko položila na mizo pozneje, takrat, ko me je življenje hotelo zabrisati iz igre. /…/ Najpomembnejše se nama je zdelo, da ostaneva v ključnih točkah zvesta romanu, da se dotakneva nekaterih pomembnih življenjskih tem, da ohraniva duha in sporočilo zgodbe ter ne zaideva v patetičnost in karikiranje. In ko sva imela postavljene te temelje, sva začela pisati. /…/ Zares je nadrealen občutek, ko se pred teboj začne vrteti film o življenju, ki si ga že odživel. Ko gledaš film, v katerem si, a te hkrati ni. Moram reči, da je zame to kar zapletena reč. Ker se še enkrat zgodi vse. Vse lepo, ampak tudi vse hudo.«
– Bronja Žakelj
»Bronjin roman ima v sebi svetlobo, lahkotnost in na trenutke tudi duhovitost v načinu, kako prikaže dogodke. /…/ Kolektivni spomini, ki izvirajo iz nekdanje Jugoslavije, so še vedno živi. V filmu je tako prikazan del socialnih konstruktov okoli varčevalnih ukrepov, bonov za bencin in kupovanja dobrin v Italiji. A to je le del zgodbe. Ravno toliko prisoten, da označi zgodovinski čas, v katerem se film dogaja. Sicer smo se bolj osredotočili na družinsko zgodbo. /…/ Tragične dogodke smo skušali osmisliti skozi duhovni razvoj človeka: smrt je del nas in vsaka smrt tudi ni konec sveta. V zgodbi smo priča smrti, ki za junakinjo pomeni prezgodnje odraščanje, smrti, ki predstavlja popoln šok, in smrti, ki je naraven odhod s tega sveta. Vsi tragični dogodki torej niso enaki.«
– Marko Naberšnik
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