Directed by:
Vladimir BlazevskiScreenplay:
Vladimir BlazevskiCinematography:
Dimo PopovComposer:
Aleksandar PejovskiCast:
Jordan Simonov, Kamka Tocinovski, Toni Mihajlovski, Vladimir Tuliev, Flora Dostovska, Jordanko Čevreski, Bojan Trifunovski, Kiril Pop Hristov, Adem Karaga (more)Plots(1)
Mirsa is the former singer in what was once the most popular punk band in Macedonia, but it broke up years ago. He’s now forty, still living with his mother, and he occasionally sells drugs for Albanian dealer Gzim, who in return supplies him with grass on the cheap. Then one day Gzim comes up with an idea: Mirsa ought to get his band back together so they can perform at a benefit concert in Debar, a Macedonian city with an Albanian majority population. Mirsa has an almost herculean task ahead of him: after a period of 17 years, to locate and convince all the band members, some of whom left Macedonia after the break-up of Yugoslavia, to perform together once again in concert. On a minimum budget, director and screenwriter Vladimir Blaževski has turned in a punchy independent road movie about people for whom punk isn’t just music, it’s their whole life. He also uses black humour and insight to touch upon more serious issues and, thanks to the documentary techniques he employs in the film, he manages to achieve a sense of absolute conviction. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Jordan Simonov
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
Secret Ingredient (2017)
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Kamka Tocinovski
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
Three Days in September (2015)
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Toni Mihajlovski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Black Sun (2017) (series)
Cabaret Balkan (1998)
Gypsy Magic (1997)
Vladimir Tuliev
Best movies:
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
The Third Half (2012)
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (2019)
Flora Dostovska
Best movies:
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Jordanko Čevreski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Gypsy Magic (1997)
Tetoviranje (1991)
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Bojan Trifunovski
Best movies:
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Kiril Pop Hristov
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Tetoviranje (1991)
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Bal-Can-Can (2005)
Adem Karaga
Best movies:
Three Days in September (2015)
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
To the Hilt (2014)
Ratka Radmanovic
Best movies:
Gypsy Magic (1997)
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
The Third Half (2012)
Blagoj Veselinov
Best movies:
Secret Ingredient (2017)
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
As If I Am Not There (2010)
Jovica Mihajlovski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Srečna nova '49 (1986)
Tetoviranje (1991)
Upside Down (2007)
Mirsad Iseini
Best movies:
Punk's Not Dead (2011)