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Focus, Grandma: Directed by Pjer Zalica. With Mira Banjac, Jasna Zalica, Alma Prica, Admir Glamocak. April 1992. Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch.
The micro-budget feature “Focus, Grandma” from Bosnian helmer-writer Pjer Žalica is a black comedy set in Sarajevo during the spring of 1992, when members of a dysfunctional...
Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch. She is not well, but the forecast of a family doctor that her death is a matter of minutes away proves incorrect, so the waiting stretches out for days.
Set in the spring of 1992, Focus, Grandma uses the microcosm of a feuding family to reflect the wider tensions bubbling to the surface in a Sarajevo heading towards war. A talented ensemble...
FOCUS, GRANDMA. April 1992. Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch. She is not well, but the forecast of a family doctor that her death is a matter of minutes away proves incorrect, so the waiting stretches out for days.
That turbulent period serves as the backdrop to “Focus, Grandma,” which follows a group of family members summoned to Sarajevo to stand vigil by their matriarch’s death bed. As the old woman ...
Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch. She is not well, but the forecast of a family doctor that her death is a matter of minutes away proves incorrect, so the waiting stretches out for days.
