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  Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmìd
Tri sestre (Three sisters)
  Slovenia 1992
Videotape, 27:14, colour & black-and-white, mono
It starts very innocently: an enchanting landscape of magnificent Christmas cards in which all slumbers sweetly and peacefully whilst the snow falls from the sky in plump flakes. But then, in the same splendid exposure, the True Evil surfaces. Charlotte Rampling's twin ('The nightporter') suddenly appears in the scene accompanied by a sensual woman in a threateningly red-glowing dress. They are two of the three sisters from Chekhov's book of the same name on which Gržinić and Ŝměd loosely based their fantasy. Elements from that film - the confusing amalgamation of a death wish and a fear of life, the desire to torment and to caress, the inability to correct an addictive deviation - and the sometimes painful discussion in the play form the framework in which the two makers try to understand the current developments in their fatherland. Through the window in the decor we can see documentary images of the stupidity and pathos of which we are all capable.

Erik Daams

Camera, Light: Andrej Lupinc, Image: BoŜtjan Kisovec, Editing: Zdene Kuzmič, Effects: Ivo Debevc, Graphics: Marija Delevič, Sound: Janko MarŜič, Branko Atanaskovič, Music: Brina Jež, Costumes: Barbara Stupica, Miroslav Sokolovski, Jožica Plut, Art director: Tihomir Milovac, With: Marinka Stern, Olga Kacjan, Metka Trdin, UröŜ Maček, Pavle Ravnohrib and others, Production: TV Slovenija, Slovensko mladinsko gledaliče, Toni Karol KoroŜeć


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