Filmography

[P]According to the Paris Peace Treaty in 1947, Istrian Pula belonged to Yugoslavia. The vast majority of Italians living there begin to leave the city, although the Yugoslav authorities try to keep as many of them as possible by flattery. A young worker, Berto, gets caught in a net and, despite the pleas of his wife, who is worried about the future of their son, decides to go to Yugoslavia, hoping to become the owner of the workshop where he works. But he soon bitterly regrets the decision he made. The machines are confiscated by the Yugoslav government and the town, which soon becomes half-empty, no longer offers good opportunities for earning money. Thanks to the intervention of a Yugoslav official of the Communist Party, Bert manages to get his wife and child, who needs treatment, to Trieste. Life is getting harder and the socialist paradise is becoming a real hell for the main character. He opposes the regime, so he is arrested and sent to a concentration camp, from which Bert manages to escape. Wandering, he reaches the shore, where he finds a boat. He quickly rows towards the Italian coast, but his hope is extinguished by a burst of Yugoslav machine guns...[/P]

City of pain

Mario Bonnard

1948

Italy

[P]The first Slovenian sound feature film was based on the novella and screenplay by Ciril Kosmač. The story takes place during the last two years of the liberation struggle in Primorska. The inhabitants of the typical coastal village suffered Italian occupation and later German occupation since the Treaty of Rapala after the First World War. For them, resistance is an opportunity to break free from foreign domination. The film is both a war film about the partisan struggle and also a film that shows a village and its inhabitants who unitedly supported this struggle.[/P]

On our land

France Štiglic

1948

Yugoslavia/Slovenia

[P]Crime writer Holly Martins travels to post-war Vienna, divided into four zones, where he was invited by his old friend Harry Lime. But immediately after arriving, Holly realizes that his friend is dead. The death seems suspicious to Holly and his investigation leads him into the dark mysteries of a corrupt underworld. The film was based on the work of the same name by Graham Greene, who also wrote the screenplay. An undisputed classic and a film noir that is among the most recognizable of all time.[/P]

The Third Man

Carol Reed

1949

United Kingdom

[P]After World War II, in a village on the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, a special demarcation commission draws a line that will divide the village in half. In a few hours, the villagers will have to decide whether they will be Italians or Yugoslavs. This causes many hardships for people. One of the farmers has a house on one side of the border and a field on the other. The young man’s love lives in the other half of the settlement. The children are from all over the village and even they do not accept such changes.[/P]

Boundless hearts

Luigi Zampa

1950

Italy

[P]The Second World War is slowly coming to an end, but in Trieste, under the German occupation, the Slovenian-Italian resistance is still simmering and the people are preparing for an open uprising with the help of Yugoslav partisans. The leader of the rebellion is the communist Borut, and the feistiest rebel is Karlo, who defends the annexation of Trieste to the new Yugoslavia with all his might. In the shipyard, some workers are arrested for sabotage and some of them are hanged by the Germans in the street. The Italian police officers, who now realize that the Germans will lose the war, are fleeing the city en masse. Karlo calls the workers together in the shipyard and orders them to strike. Borut, who is hiding with one of the rebels, Vida, is pursued by the police, but escapes at the last moment. Vida is not so lucky, as she is arrested and tortured in prison. Rebels distribute weapons to the workers and they clash with German soldiers in the city. Partisans finally appear in Trieste and are welcomed by the people as liberators.[/P]

Trieste

France Štiglic

1951

Yugoslavia/Slovenia

[P]The poignant short documentary Kras, the directorial debut of director "from the border" Franco Giraldi, is dedicated to his home environment. Although he grew up in Trieste, he was born in the karst hinterland, in Komen. This precious lyrical short film foreshadows the poetics of the director in his mature years and tells us about a land that is not generous to people and their work and is stuck between the sea and the sky, even though it is far from the idea we have about it today.[/P]

Karst

Franco Giraldi

1960

Italy

[P]The short documentary film by director and screenwriter Mako Sajko focuses on what happened on and along the Yugoslav-Italian border in the 1960s. It describes life and friendly neighborly relations in a border area where the exchange of goods between the two countries takes place almost unhindered in a humorous and light-hearted manner. The documentary dispels myths about the impenetrable and strict border between the then Eastern and Western blocs, which over the years has been called the "Iron Curtain".[/P]

Where is the iron curtain?

Mako Sajko

1961

Yugoslavia/Slovenia

[P]Trieste 1948 is a collection of testimonies that investigate the effects of the Informbiro on the Communist Party in Trieste. Stalin's Informbiro was the body that officially approved the expulsion of the Yugoslav Communist Party and thus its split from other communist workers' parties in Europe. In the background, the city of Trieste is still under Anglo-American military administration. In the collection of testimonies, Giraldi recreates the dramatic events of 1948 and emphasizes from the beginning that he only wanted to encourage historical reflection on these facts with his work.[/P]

Trst 1948

Franco Giraldi

1982

Italy

[P]The film explores the making of Carol Reed's The Third Man, which has become a timeless noir classic. It is the first documentary about the popular film, in which Anglo-Austrian director Frederick Baker takes viewers on a journey by following the footsteps of Graham Greene's literary proposal, separating fact from fiction about the film's creation. The documentary literally recreates Reed's film in the original Viennese locations.[/P]

Following the footsteps of The Third Man

Frederick Baker

2005

United kingdom, Austria, France, Japan, USA

[P]After the end of the Second World War, the towns along the western Slovenian border were occupied by the allied army for two years. The border zone became known as Zone A. The Americans, the English, the New Zealanders, even the Indians managed the so-called Zone A of the Morgan Line from Trieste across the Karst to Predel, before the peace conference in London in February 1947 determined the true demarcation line between Italy and Yugoslavia. The documentary talks about encounters with extravagance and democracy, about Coca-Cola and chewing gum, which together with jazz occupied the Soča Valley, about the time of great prosperity, as well as fierce demonstrations for annexation to Yugoslavia, and through the accounts of living witnesses and young historians, it recreates that time at the end of the Second World War, when girls danced swing in the evening and wrote on the walls of houses at night: THEIRS WE DON’T WANT, OURS WE DON’T GIVE![/P]

We don't want white bread

Jasna Hribernik

2009

Slovenia

[P]Through interviews and archival images, the film talks about life in Trieste during the years of the Allied Military Administration (1945-1954). The faces and stories of the children who played baseball in the suburban markets at the time and the girls who found jobs with their moderate knowledge of English. In the background, American flags fly and Studebaker cars drive through the city. These are the voices from the time of black and white Trieste, which was suddenly flooded by the colors of America and swing after the war.[/P]

Our American Days

Chiara Barbo, Andrea Magnani

2014

Italy