House of Brazil / Brazilova kuća
documentary film
House of Brazil is a feature-length documentary film about the strength of a long-term friendship that neither the geographical distance from Croatia to Germany, nor life in exile managed to break. The friendship between Branko (the film's narrator) and Goran, aka Brazil, whose stroke deprived him of the power of speech but not his vital energy and desire for communication.
A photo from Goran's childhood with Juro Kerošević, the main protagonist of "Husinska Buna" protests of mine workers in 1920, is the starting point of the film. This photograph motivates, Goran, to not only explain who the charismatic hero from the photo is, but also opens up the question of a complex identity and the devaluation of elementary values.
With Branko carefully deciphering Goran's language, the film takes us on a journey from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Goran visits his abandoned birthplace for the last time. The intimate confrontation with the disappearance of a world is at the same time a symbol of the failed transition processes in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also of the overall "global concussions" that we are constantly faced with.
Year: 2024.
Location of filming: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Running time: 84'
Language: Croatian, Bosnian
Director & screenwriter: Branko Šimić
Main Protagonist: Goran Pavljašević
Director of photography: Mario Ilić
Producers: Danijel Handjal & Gianna Buršić / 25/9 production
In coproduction with: KRASS Festival & NOJZ Film production
Editors: Konrad Buschke & Mario Ilić
Sound designer: Filip Motovunski
Music composer: Mirza Rahmanović Indigo