Dum Spiro Spero

Croatia2016documentary52'Konkurs dokumentalny (2017)

“While I breathe, I hope”, says the Latin sentence in the title. This film, made by the well-known Croatian author Pero Kvesić who has been struggling with a severe lung disease, is the very expression of hope. Recording his everyday struggle, the picture resembles a peculiar blog filled with self-irony and witty comments about life and death. Although the world around continues to shrink, the hero and the director in one does not cease to fill it with sense.

directed by
Pero Kvesić

Born in 1950 in Zagreb, where he studied sociology and philosophy. He created and worked as an editor of a magazine for young people, Polet, and magazine Pitanja. He writes prose, poetry and books for children. He came up with the idea for and wrote an animated series for children, The Little Flying Bears (1991). He is an author of scripts for several television series and documentary films. He co-wrote "Rajko Grlić’s film You Love Only Once" (1981). Since 2006, he has been writing his own blog, “Čovjek-vadičep sreće ženu-ribu”.

cinematography
Pero Kvesić
script
Pero Kvesić
cast
Iva Sokol, Dinko Sokol Kvesić, Olga Sokol, Natalija Sokol Kvesić
music
Srđan Sacher
sound
Danijel Pejić, Ivan Zelić
editing
Ana Šerić
production
Nenad Puhovski (Factum)
Photo
Kadr z filmu Dum Spiro Spero
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