Belgrade,
May 1999. NATO bombings reduce conditions in the high-rise
buildings where Kaja (Nebojsa Glogovac) lives in a permanent
state of emergency fear, ignorance, rubble and
no-future attitudes. Kaja suggests rebuilding the bombed-out
basketball court to cheer up his small son, who has
not spoken since the first attacks.
Amid
the rubble, hope for a normal life with normal activities
and pastimes such as basketball sprouts. The film's genesis
dates to the bombings principal photography took
place between July and September 1999.
Nebeska
Udica boasts a brilliant ensemble cast which brings screenwriter
Djorde Milosavljevic and director Ljubisa Samardzic's
carefully rendered characters to life with wonderfully
dry
humour,
while the basketball sequences give the film a surprising
levity. A film applicable to any civilian population
threatened by war.
by
Ljubisa
Samardzic