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It was all just a good dream |
The film examines the events from the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence, the arrival of the young French volunteer Jean-Michel Nicolier, his fight, and subsequent death. While searching for her son's remains, Jean-Michel's mother remembers his youth, trying to fathom what made him leave his home and fight a war that wasn't his.
English synopsis: Shocking, intimate and moving documentary examines the events from the time of the war in Croatia and the arrival of the young French volunteer Jean-Michel Nicolier in Croatia. We follow his fighting in the hearth of the tragic battle of Vukovar and the agony and torture that he suffered at Ovcara. His story is presented through the eyes of his mother Lyliane Fournier. We see her searching for any piece of information which could help to find the mortal remains of her son.
French Résumé: Le documentaire “Tout était un beau rêve” observe les événements du début de la guerre d'Indépendance en Croatie, l'arrivée du jeune Français Jean-Michel Nicolier en Croatie, son combat, le tragique de la défense de la ville de Vukovar ainsi que sa mort martyr à Ovčara. Son histoire est présentée à travers les yeux de sa mère Lyliane Fournier. Dans le film on suit sa recherche d'informations à fin de trouver la dépouille mortelle de son fils.
Italian synopsis: La tragica e ancora misteriosa storia del giovane francese Jean-Michel Nicolier, volontario in Croazia ai tempi della guerra d’indipendenza, vista venticinque anni dopo dagli occhi di sua madre, Lyliane Fournier. Uno spaccato di storia recente ripercorso per eventi; il dramma privato che, attraverso il ricordo e la ricerca inesausta, si proietta in direzione della speranza, battendo i sentieri dell’indagine storiografica.
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Branko Istvancic was born in 1967 in Subotica (Serbia). He was graduated film and TV direction in 1999 at Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb (Croatia). Making his first, documentary films on 8 mm camera at 15 with his first Hungarian film teacher Zoltan Siflis from Subotica, he has continuously been involved with documentary films and has received Croatian as well as international rewards for his work - The Grand Prix at Croatian Short and Documentary Film Festival, "Oktavijan" and "Zlatna Uljanica" Golden Oil-lamp award being among them. His student short fiction Saying Goodbye / Rastanak was included in the New Direction program of The First Film Foundation in London, a selection of six outstanding films by promising European directors. Deeply enrooted in the Croatian documentary tradition, he pays special attention to the humane, but also humoristic, treatment of his subjects. His successfully film, Wellman / Bunarman (2003), continues this tradition, and elevates the simple story about a well digger to a level of the universal metaphor, but without the pretentious nature of many Croatian documentaries. The critics consider his film The Cormorant Scarecrow / Plasitelj Kormorana (1998) to be one of the best Croatian documentaries of the nineties. His debut The Ghost in the Swamp / Duh u mocvari was a domestic box-office hit and has been chosen to mark the comeback of feature-length films for children which have not been made by the Croatian film industry for the last twenty years. Filmography SAYING GOODBYE / RASTANAK THE GHOST IN THE SWAMP / DUH U MOCVARI THE BRIDGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD / MOST NA KRAJU SVIJETA
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