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Wheels (Tockovi)
Yugoslavia (1998)
About the film
This nightmare comedy is a parable about the Balkans and its culture of
violence. Like Quentin Tarantino, but with bigger things in mind,
director Djordje Milosavljevic is thoroughly at home with the moody,
paranoid world of film noir, and is every bit as deft at using its
traditions while sending them up at the same time. Nemanya, a young man
from Belgrade, is trying to get home one stormy night. Not far from home
he is soaked in a biblical downpour that maroons him at a remote little
motel called The Wheel. The people gathered here would give pause to The
Addams Family, and the rainy night changes into a night of horror for
Nemanya. He is falsely accused of a series of murders, and finds that
the gun is the only way out. The accelerating downward momentum of the
formerly innocent Nemanya, and his growing mastery of murder, is black
humor reminiscent of noir novelist Cornell Woolrich at his sardonic
best. Parallels to the situation in the real Yugoslavia are there for
those who care to make them.
Director's filmography
Djordje Milosavljevic (b. 1969, in Ivanica, Serbia) began as a
film critic, but mainly devoted his time to creating cartoons serials
that ware published in many magazines. Some of them were translated into
Russian, Greek and English. He won a National Prize for the best
Yugoslav comics of 1994. Two of his theatre plays— "Saint
Apocalypse" and "Paper Devils"—were published in the
prestigious literary monthly "Knizhevna rec." "Naked
Vera" is among the most popular Serbian dramas on the Internet. As
scriptwriter he made his debut with the fiction film Paket
Aranzhman, and he finished his studies at the Faculty of Dramatic
Arts in Belgrade in 1997, graduating with the script for the film
directed by Radivoy Andrich Three Palms for Two Loafers and a
Chick (Tri palme za dye bitange i pticu, 1998) which became
one of the most popular films in the country. Wheels is
Milosavljevic’s directing debut. Since directing it he has also written
the upcoming Sky Hook (Nebeska udica, 1999)
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93 min., color, 35mm
Serbian with English subtitles
Director: Djordje Milosavljevic
Screenplay: Djordje Milosavljevic
Dir. of photography: Dusan Ivanovic
Music: Laiko Felix
Editor: Branka Ceperac
Producer: Ljubisa Samardzic
Production: Cinema Design in collaboration with the
Ministry of Culture of Serbia, co-production with Bulgarian National
Television
Cast: Dragan Micanovic, Anica Dobra, Nikola Kojo, Ljubisa
Samardzic, Bogdan Diklic
Contact: Cinema Design
Ustanicka 125
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
vox: 38 1 11 488 2377
fax: 38 1 11 488 8011
email: sinema@eunet.yu
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