Slow death of Istrian towns, far from the sea and abandoned by its residents. The houses can't be sold even for peanuts.
Cinematography
Black-and-white decay as visual poetry.
Direction
Galić lets ruins speak for themselves.
Director
Eduard Galić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Istria's post-WWII exodus saw 350,000 Italians leave Yugoslavia, leaving these architectural corpses behind.
Galić filmed this during Yugoslavia's economic boom, making the poverty a deliberate political accusation, not mere observation.
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