Wanderlust

91 min, Beta video, transfer to 35 mm

FR Yugoslavia

1998

Photographs from the film

Photographs from shooting

After decades of work in Italy and Germany, Giuseppe is retired and returns to his family home in Istria. He is lonely and his mother advises him to get married. She hands him over his father’s uniform from the Austro-Hungarian army. Giuseppe sets off on a quest to find a wife in the “transitional East” hoping to be warmly welcomed. The road takes him to Budapest, Montenegro, Vojvodina. His plan is not so easily realised...

Written and directed by: Želimir Žilnik
Camera: Miodrag Milošević
Edited by: Reza Kralj
Sound: Vladimir Stanojević
Music: The Tiger Lillies
Executive producer: Sarita Matijević

Cast: Giuseppe Pastorchich, Jovan Kiselički, Gordana Kamenarović, Zoran Hajduk Veljković, Ljubica Rakić, Branislav Popović, Jelena Jovanović Žigon, Hanibal Kovacs, Tamara Popović, Emma Doro, Danijela Jovanović, Jeno Ferenczy, Mirko di Stefano, Renata Vigi, Marina Cinkocki, Nikolina Ursulesku, Danilo Čelebić, Slaviša Čurović, Želmira Briza, Želimir Vučevac

Production: Teresianum b.t., Budapest, Hungary VP Kregar, Ljubljana, Slovenia Terra film, Novi Sad Kvadrat, Beograd TV Crna Gora, Podgorica

Resources

Press clipping_Kud plovi ovaj brod_1991.zip

Želimir Žilnik (born in Niš in 1942; currently living and working in Novi Sad) has written and directed numerous feature and documentary films which have reaped many awards at domestic and international film festivals. Žilnik is renowned as an initiator of the "docudrama" genre.

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This web site gives an overview and is an attempt to create an educational research platform dedicated to the contextualization and problematization of the relationship between Žilnik's artistic engagement and the political and social environment of his work, from the beginning of 1967 to the present. Through a collection of three research projects, the diverse material that is before you is a corpus for further analysis, valorisation and systematization of Žilnik's cinematographic work.

This web site contains research essays, information about complete filmography and material (press clips, photographs and inserts from films) from the personal archive of Želimir Žilnik, who is the rights holder of published photographs and clips. We would like to thank Bora Ćosić for the permission to digitalize and publish within this project special issue No 3 of magazine ROK, dedicated to the Žilnik's movie Early Works, as well to all authors of published newspaper articles and authors of essays who are copyright holders of the given material. We would like to thank RTV for permissions to show films of Želimir Žilnik First Trimester of Pavle Hromiš, The Comedy and Tragedy of Bora Joksimović, Vera and Eržika during the online screening programs, and RTS on the permission to show films Brooklyn-Gusinje, Dragoljub and Bogdan: Electricity, Good morning Belgrade.

Thank you RTV for the show to show during the screening of the next television film Želimir Žilnik

Publishing of this material has exclusively educational purpose and it is dedicated to future use in personal, research and and non-commercial intent. For any further use of the material, it is advisable to contact authors.

The web site is conceived as an initial platform and is the result of work on projects “For an Idea – Against the Status Quo” (vol.1 / vol.2) 2009-2011 which was realized in the co-production of Center_kuda.org and Playground production from Novi Sad, “An Introduction to the Past” 2009-2013 Center_kuda.org, and “Shadow Citizens” 2017-2018 realized in co-production of a curatorial collective What, how and for whom / WHW from Zagreb and Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst from Oldenburg.