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20 August, 2004
"Kod Amidze Idriza / Days and hours"- new movie by Pjer Zalica

After successful cooperation on the movie "Fuse", director Zalica and composer Losic were creating together again.

SARAJEVO, BiH - New film by Pjer Zalica "Kod amidze Idriza / Days and hours". Story about the man who came to repair a boiler and repaired people's hearts. After successful cooperation on the film "Gori Vatra" / "Fuse", this was the second time that director Zalica and music composer Losic were working together. Main musical theme "Malo je malo dana" performed by Halid Beslic, famous BiH folk singer, has achieved the same success as the lead song of the "Fuse" film. In less than 24 hours it came to the top on the music charts of BiH radio and television stations.

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Days and Hours

(Kod Amidze Idriza)

Director: Pjer Zalica

Pjer Zalica was born in Sarajevo. He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Sarajevo and graduated from the directing department of Sarajevo's Academy of Performing Arts. In addition to his work as a theatre director and screenwriter, he has directed several short fiction and documentary films, including Children Like Any Others (95) and The End of Unpleasant Times, which was part of the omnibus work Made in Sarajevo (98). Fuse (03), his acclaimed first feature film, screened at the Festival last year. Days and Hours (04) is his second feature

Country: Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year: 2004
Language: Bosnian
Time: 96 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm

Production Company: Refresh Production/RTV Federacije BIH
Executive Producer: Ismet Begtasevic
Producer: Ademir Kenovic
Screenplay: Namik Kabil
Cinematography: Mirsad Herovic
Editor: Almir Kenovic
Production Designer: Sanda Popovac
Sound: Nenad Vukadinovic
Music: Sasa Losic

Principal Cast: Senad Basic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Semka Sokolovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Jasna Zalica

Pjer Zalica's debut Fuse was an irreverent testament to the ability of the human spirit to maintain a sense of humour amid a terrible war and an acrimonious peace. With his second feature, Days and Hours, the director says he has made "a film about a war with not a si ngle image of it and not a single word about it." Instead, he has reduced war to its essence - its residual effect on the hearts and minds of those who have lived through it - and turned it into a story about the slow return of normalcy and joy after the conflict.

Fuke (Senad Basic) pays a visit to his Uncle Idriz (Mustafa Nadarevic) and Aunt Sabira (Semka Sokolovic) to fix their hot water heater. As he sits down with them for a cup of coffee, he endures a painful, awkward silence: his aunt and uncle are consumed with their own grief over the loss of their son in the war. When he discovers that his old, beat-up Volkswagen has a flat tire, Fuke is faced with the unpleasant prospect of spending the night with his aunt and uncle. During the long night, he becomes aware of long-held grudges that are driving a wedge between the couple, serving to deepen their loneliness. Fuke realizes it is up to him to bring about their reconciliation and the household appliance mechanic turns his hand to engineering human happiness.

However, Days and Hours is no maudlin family drama. It is infused throughout with Zalica's characteristically dark Eastern-European humour, which is predicated on an essential delight in the irrational and the illogical. As he skilfully blends gentle farce with wry commentary on bleak situations, his point of view is unerringly, unrelentingly honest and revealing, always retaining a sense of irony and a remarkable ability to find comedy in tragedy.

- Dimitri Eipides -

from Toronto Film Festival review