''The Staffroom'' ( hr, Zbornica) is a 2021 Croatian
drama film, the feature film debut of writer and director
Sonja Tarokić
Sonja Tarokić (born 19 March 1983) is a Croatian film director and screenwriter.
Born in Zagreb, Tarokić earned an MA in film directing from the University of Zagreb's Academy of Dramatic Art (ADU), and a BA in comparative literature from the ...
.
The film premiered at the
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become ...
in August 2021, and won the
Big Golden Arena
The Golden Arena awards were established in 1955 as the Yugoslav national film awards presented annually at the Pula Film Festival in Pula, Croatia, with the Big Golden Arena for Best Film its main prize. From 1955 to 1990 the awards were the Yu ...
for Best Film almost a year later at the July 2022
Pula Film Festival, the event which serves as the Croatian national film awards.
Plot
Entirely set at an elementary school in
Zagreb, a new school counselor Anamarija arrives and tries to navigate helping students with complicated and entrenched inner workings of the school, inevitably on a collision course with the headmistress Vedrana and an old history teacher in his sixties, Siniša.
Cast
* Marina Redžepović as Anamarija
*
Stojan Matavulj
Stojan Matavulj (born 24 February 1961) is a Croatian actor.
Filmography
Television roles
* ''Ruža vjetrova'' as Stipe Odak (2011–2013)
* '' Instruktor'' as Strikan (2010)
* ''Zakon!'' as Zdravko Maček (2009)
* ''Sve će biti dobro'' a ...
as Siniša Jambrović
*
Nives Ivanković
Nives Ivanković (born 1 June 1967) is a Croatian actress.
Biography
Ivanković was born on 1 June 1967 in Duvno. She attended elementary and secondary school in Split and graduated in acting from the Academy of Performing Arts at the Universit ...
as Vedrana
* Maja Posavec as Ivana
* Sandra Lončarić as Sanda
References
External links
*
2021 films
2021 drama films
Croatian drama films
2020s Croatian-language films
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