Fine Dead Girls sometimes also Nice Dead Girls is a 2002

2002 in film

The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...

 film

Film

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 introduced on Pula Film Festival

Pula Film Festival

The Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival which is held annually in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula arena since 1954. The festival is usually held in the summer, in July or August....

. The film has been named one of the best Croatian movies of the last decade. It caught much attention due to its controversial, provocative themes.

Plot

Iva and Marija, who are a lesbian

Lesbian

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 couple, rent an apartment in Zagreb in a building that seems to be quiet and a safe environment for their love. But as time passes by, the atmosphere in the house gets more and more aggressive.

Elder Olga is dominating the house. Other tenants include her calm husband and her grown-up son Daniel (who gets designs on Iva), the prostitute Lidija, an abused housewife, a widower keeping the corpse of his newly deceased wife, a gynecologist performing abortions in one flat of the house and an ex-soldier who regularly plays martial music at night. The characters are meant to display the madness of the post war

Croatian War of Independence

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 Croatian society.

The conservative religious father of Marija is secretly tracing his daughter and pays Lidija to try to seduce Iva, which fails.

After Olga finds out that Iva and Marija are lesbians, the situation escalates in rape, murder and kidnapping.

Cast

• Olga Pakalović as Iva
• Nina Violić as Marija
• Krešimir Mikić as Daniel
• Inge Appelt as Olga the Landlady
• Ivica Vidović
  Ivica Vidovic
  Ivica Vidović was a Croatian and Yugoslav actor who appeared in many classic films in the cinematic output of the former Yugoslavia....
  
   as Blaž
• Milan Štrljić
• Mirko Boman
• Jadranka Đokić as Lidija the Prostitute
• Boris Miholjević as Perić the Gynecologist
• Marina Poklepović as Marina Kostelac
• Janko Rakos
• Ilija Zovko

Pula Film Festival 2002

• Audience Award "Golden Gate Pula"
• Big Golden Arena – Jozo Patljak
• Golden Arena – Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Ivica Vidović, Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Olga Pakalović, Best Director: Dalibor Matanić

Sochi International Film Festival 2003

• Special Jury Award – Dalibor Matanić (tied with At kende sandheden
  Facing the Truth (film)
  Facing the Truth is a 2002 Danish drama written and directed by Nils Malmros. Shot in black-and-white documentary style, and based on the real life of Malmros' father, the film relates the hardships of a young neurosurgeon struggling through a medical lawsuit...
  
  (2002))
• Golden Rose – Dalibor Matanić (nominated)

External links

• Fine Dead Girls at Filmski-Programi.hr