Step by Step
view in croatian- 2011
- 115'
- DCP, 35 mm
- color
- war, drama
- debut feature
- Orig. Title: Korak po korak
In 1991, at the beginning of the war in Croatia, Vjera Kralj refuses to leave the ruins of her home on the Osijek frontline. Her husband flees the town while their son goes to the battlefield. Working as an interpreter to earn money for a bulletproof vest that could save her son’s life, Vjera meets a number of unusual people and through their destinies we learn about the Pannonian Plain over the course of two wars. This is a film about violence and victims. It is also about a woman who needs the war to learn who she is and what she needs, a woman who loses her husband only after he comes back to her, a woman who leaves Osijek only after the war is over, a woman who is on a path of self-discovery.
- Director
- Biljana Čakić Veselič
- Screenplay
- Lydia Scheuermann Hodak, Branko Šömen, Biljana Čakić Veselič
- Cinematography
- Slobodan Trninić
- Editing
- Veljko Segarić
- Production Design
- Mario Ivezić
- Costume Design
- Željka Franulović
- Music
- Tomo Sombolac
- Sound Design
- Mladen Šiklić
- Cast
- Ksenija Marinković, Nenad Cvetko, Hrvoje Perc, Sreten Mokrović, Vera Zima, Goran Navojec, Neven Paleček Papageno, Bojan Navojec, Darko Milas, Sandra Lončarić Tankosić, Vilim Matula, Božidarka Frait, Mladen Vulić, Barbara Prpić, Aljoša Vučković
- Producer
- Ivan Maloča
- Production
- Interfilm
- Co-production
- Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT)
Biljana Čakić Veselič (1967) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She continued her schooling in Denmark at Ebeltoft Film College where she studied film and tv directing. Her most successful film so far, the documentary The Boy Who Rushed (2001) won every major documentary award in Croatia. It was also shown at many international festivals and has been broadcast on numerous tv networks. Her other work includes a tv documentary Vidovnjakinja (2001), a short film that formed part of the omnibus project Across the Border: Five Views from Neighbours (2004) and a documentary feature film Zagorka (2007), the biopic of the pioneering Croatian female journalist and writer Marija Jurić Zagorka.
