Ivana the Terrible
Ivana cea Groaznica
Ivana Mladenović
Ivana works as an actress in Romania, but after she is confronted with some health issues, decides to spend the summer in her small Serbian hometown by the Danube, surrounded by family. She is asked by the mayor to be the image of the local music festival and she reluctantly accepts it. But after her eccentric musician friends arrive from Bucharest and her love life involving a much younger local boy becomes the town's gossip, Ivana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
With : Ivana Mladenović, Gordana Mladenović, Luka Gramic, Miodrag Mladenović, Kosta Mladenović, Zivka Sorejević, Andrei Dinescu, Anca Pop
Screenplay : Ivana Mladenović, Adrian Schiop
Image : Carmen Tofeni
Sound : Alexandru Dumitru
Editing : Patricia Chelaru, Cătălin Cristuțiu
Screenplay : Ivana Mladenović, Adrian Schiop
Image : Carmen Tofeni
Sound : Alexandru Dumitru
Editing : Patricia Chelaru, Cătălin Cristuțiu
Production : MicroFILM, Dunav 84
International sales: Syndicado Films
International sales: Syndicado Films
Ivana Mladenović became known as director of fiction short films and documentaries that were presented in festivals worldwide. She directed her fiction feature debut with Soldatii. Poveste din Ferentari (Soldiers. Story from Ferentari) (TIFF Toronto 2017). Ivana cea Groaznica (Ivana the Terrible) is her second feature.
“This is the result of a personal crisis that led me back home in the summer of 2017, to the banks of the Danube, by the Romanian-Serbian border. I began rewriting the true events of that summer as a script. The film started as an independent project, in Kladovo, where the original protagonists, friends and family were invited to re-live the events as fictional characters on camera. All the ‘actors' rehearsed their actual selves for months in the form of roles and written lines. A process that started almost as a therapy technique became a film. Even in personal history the repetition of a drama can become a farce. In our case, a comedy.” (Ivana Mladenović)
“This is the result of a personal crisis that led me back home in the summer of 2017, to the banks of the Danube, by the Romanian-Serbian border. I began rewriting the true events of that summer as a script. The film started as an independent project, in Kladovo, where the original protagonists, friends and family were invited to re-live the events as fictional characters on camera. All the ‘actors' rehearsed their actual selves for months in the form of roles and written lines. A process that started almost as a therapy technique became a film. Even in personal history the repetition of a drama can become a farce. In our case, a comedy.” (Ivana Mladenović)