After the Rooster’s Crow

1 July 2024

Original title: Nakon što je petao zapojao

English title: After the rooster's crow

Spoken languages: serbian

Subtitles: english, russian

Genre: short fiction / drama

Duration: 29 min

Color: colour

Format: DCP/MP4

Resolution: HD

Apect ration: cinemascope 1.78:1 (16:9)

Frames: 25fps

Sound: stereo

Premiere: 2010.

IMDB: Nakon Sto je Petao Zapojao (2010) - Reference View - IMDb

Production companies: Aleksandrija Film (Belgrade, Serbia), Academy of Arts (Belgrade, Serbia)

Executive producers: Milovan Djurovic, Dusan Djokovic

Co-producer: Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic

Director: Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic

Screenwriters: Zorica Simovic (based on her play "Jelena")

Directors of photography: Dalibor Tonkovic

Editor: Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic

Production designers: Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic

Costume designers: Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic

Sound recordist: Dragoslav Simic

Sound designer: Sasa Mirosavljevic-Don

Cast: Marijana Dugalic (Solanz), Jadranka Selec (Jelena), Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic (Guard)

 

LOGLINE

Last hours of life of an actress and member of the French Resestance.

 

SYNOPSIS

Inspired by true story of a nun Jelena Karavayeva that follows last hours of life of Solanz, a member of the French Resestance during the WW2, in the Sante prison, in Paris. Conversation between nun and Solanz will, before rooster's crow, decide her fate.

 

PRODUCTION NOTES

This short fiction film is based on the play "Jelena", by Zorica Simovic. It is thesis graduation film by Hadzi-Aleksandar Djurovic at Academy of Arts in Belgrade. Film was shot in 3 days.

 

FESTIVALS and AWARDS

- DRAMA international short film festival (Greece) - 2011

- Rome Independent Film Festival (Rim) - 2011

- Golden Knight International Film Festival (Omsk, Russia) - 2012 - Diploma for "noble ideals, rise of human's spirit and dedication to idea of Zolotoy Vityaz''

- BALFEST (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) - 2012 - Best student film

- VSTRECHA Orthodox Film Festival (Obninsk, Russia) - Grand Prix for the Best Film

- Light to the World Film Festival (Yaroslav, Russia) - 2014 - 2nd Award for Best Short Film

 

HADZI-ALEKSANDAR DJUROVIC, director

Born in Belgrade in 1988. year. After the third year of high school enrolled directing at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade. Graduated in 2010. From 2011 to 2016 he was assistant on departments of tv and film directing. He is founder and producer in production company Aleksandrija Films since 2009. He directed 12 internationaly awarded short fiction and short documentary films. His debut feature "Love Comes After" had premiere at Belgrade 61st FEST 2013 won award on Beverly Hills Film Festival in category Best Director and was nominated for Best foreign film and Best director award on NYCIFF in 2013. His first feature

documentary “You leave, I’ll Stay!” was in official documentary competition programme of 38th Moscow Film Festival. “The Bloody Lilly of the Valey” was in official selection of Montreal Film Festival. “The Touch to pain” was in official international short competition of 62. Cork Film Festival and South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles. Short film “Cockoo” was in official selection of World Fest Houston film festival. His most successful project so far is second feature fiction film "A Cross in the Desert" that had over 101.000 theatrical admissions, and was in selection of 62 festivals where it won 31 awards.

 

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

Marked (2008)

After The Rooster`s Crow (2010)

Soil (2007-2013)

Hibernation (2013)

Love Comes After (2013)

Stand Down Tragedy (2014),

The Bloody Lilly of the Valley (2014)

Path (2015)

You Leave, I`ll Stay! (2015)

Mount of Transfiguration (2016)

Hypertension (2016)

Only Love Can Save Us (2017)

The Touch to Pain (2017)

Cuckoo (2017)

Third (2019)

A Cross in the Desert (2022)