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On the Other Side

Croatia’s official Oscar submission is an enigmatic chamber drama… It ends on a poetic visual flourish

Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Zrinko Ogresta
  • Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro 2016
  • 85 minutes
  • Croatian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Vesna is a middle-aged visting nurse in Zagreb. She goes about her quiet daily life: babysitting for her son, helping her daughter to prepare for her wedding. Out of the blue, she gets a call from her husband Zarko, who left his family on the eve of the war to fight for "the other side". His reappearance sends her carefully reconstructed life into a tailspin, endangering her new identity...
The perils of the past keep echoing through the present in Zrinko Ogresta’s gripping psychological drama, a complex story of repentance and forgiveness.
Filmography: Behind the Glass (2008), Here (2003), Washed Out (1995), Fragments (1991).

The director will attend the October 20th screening.


  • Director Zrinko Ogresta
  • Production Ivan Maloca
  • Script Mate Matisic, Zrinko Ogresta
  • Cinematography Branko Linta
  • Editing Tomislav Pavlic
  • Music Mate Matisic, Simun Matisic
  • Festivals Berlinale (Panorama- Special Mention, Europa Cinemas), Karlovy Vary
  • Actors Ksenija Marinkovic, Lazar Ristovski, Tihana Lazovic, Robert Budak
  • Source InterFilm, Zagreg

On the Other Side