Pirika on Film

A biographical video essay on Pirika, a strong-willed woman from Serbia, made 44 years after her appearance in Zelimir Zilnik's documentary Little Pioneers and the Golden Bear-winning feature film Early Works. Growing up on the streets of Novi Sad, flirting with an accidental acting career, struggling through numerous failed relationships, even losing contact with her only daughter, this is the story of Pirika being reconstructed through the regenerative power of cinema. Zilnik assembles his video essay by combining docudrama with interviews with various characters. During a climactic scene in Kino Arsenal in Berlin where a retrospective screening of Early Works is taking place, Pirika reunites on stage with her one-time director Zilnik and also her estranged daughter.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Zelimir Zilnik
Cinematography: Miodrag Milosevic
Editing: Vuk Vukmirovic
Sound: Filip Vlatkovic
Music: Gabriella Benaknak
Actors: Piroska Capko, Teodora Tabacki, Gabriella Benak, BiljanaStankovic
Production: Playground Produkcija, Serbia T. +381 21 427 703 F. +38 21 427 703www.playground-produkcija.com playground@sbb.rs
Producers: Sarita Matijevic
Format: Beta SP Color
Production Country: Serbia
Production Year: 2013
Duration: 49

Želimir Žilnik

Filmography

1967 A Newsreel on Village Youth, in Winter (short)
1971 Black Film (short)
1975 Inventory (short)
1994 Tito among the Serbs for the Second Time
2000 Fortress Europe
2007 Kenedi Is Getting Married
2013 Pirika on Film
2015 Logbook Serbistan