STEEL HUG

HRT (Croatian television)
2001 Documentary, color
25 minutes, BETA SP PAL

Director BRANKO ISTVANCIC
Script BRANKO ISTVANCIC
Dramatist SILVIO MIROSNICENKO
Camera BRANKO CAHUN
Editor DAVORKA FELLER
Music PERE ISTVANCIC
Sound JOSIP LACA

Synopsis:
Retired railway worker Pavo Bozicevic spent most of his life working at the railway station in the Croatian town of Vinkovci. Today, Pavo dreams about trains and runs an amateur dramatic group of retired railway workers. With them he stages little plays based on past real-life anecdotes from Vinkovci railway station - which was once the busiest railway junction in the former Yugoslavia. Now almost completely deserted, the atmosphere at the railway station strongly resembles that of a ghost town.

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G. Corkalo, Glas Slavonije, Croatian daily 2003

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