Closeness
view in croatian- 2009
- 83'
- HD
- color
- drama
- Debut Feature
- Orig. Title: Blizine
Two strangers, a man and a woman, meet in an elevator. When the elevator gets stuck, irreconcilable differences between two protagonists resurface. What follows is a surreal interplay of passion and dreams and a confrontation that evolves into a ruthless fight for survival.
- Director
- Zdravko Mustać
- Screenplay
- Zdravko Mustać
- Cinematography
- Boris Poljak
- Editing
- Slaven Zečević
- Production Design
- Đorđe Jandrić
- Costume Design
- Ante Tonči Vladislavić
- Music
- Zvonimir Dinko Bučević
- Cast
- Anica Kovačević, Damir Klemenić
- Producers
- Vera Robić-Škarica, Vanja Hraste
- Production
- Hrvatski filmski savez (HFS)
Zdravko Mustać studied law and attended film school at the Cinema Club Split. He has directed over 40 short alternative films, videos, TV documentaries, music videos, and short fiction films. His works have won many awards, and have been screened at festivals both at home and abroad, or as part of the retrospectives of Croatian experimental film and video. He is a multiple winner (in 1996, 1999, and 2001) of the Croatian Society of Film Critic’s Oktavijan award for best film, awarded annually at the Days of Croatian Film.
Selected Filmography – Zdravko Mustać (1961)
- Spiders' Colors (2011) – experimental short
- Closeness (2009) – feature film
- Bastion (2007) – fiction short
- Plankton (2005) – fiction short
- Purgatory (2005) – documentary short
- Sinai (2003) – experimental short
- Morena (2002) – experimental short
- Zrmanja and Po (In Situ) (2001) – documentary short
- Nigredo (2001) – fiction short
- War for Harmagedon (2001) – documentary short