Landscape No.2 (2008)
"Pokrajina St.2" (original title)

The burglars Sergej and Polde steal the valuable painting "Landscape No.2". By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of the World War II. Instructor is ... See full summary »

Director:

Vinko Moderndorfer

Writer:

Vinko Moderndorfer

Stars:

Marko Mandic, Slobodan Custic, Barbara Cerar

6 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Marko Mandic	...	Sergej
Slobodan Custic	...	Instructor
Barbara Cerar	...	Magda
Maja Martina Merljak	...	Jasna
Janez Hocevar	...	Polde
Jaka Lah	...	Damjan
Janez Skof	...	General
Peter Musevski	...	Inspector Novak
Slavko Cerjak	...	Inspector Lavrencic
Stefka Drolc	...	The General's Wife
Natasa Ninkovic	...	Ruzica
Alenka Cilensek	...	Mara
Ana Facchini	...	Polde's Daughter
Domen Sneberger	...	Igor
Haris Sehic	...	Polde's Elder Son

Storyline

The burglars Sergej and Polde steal the valuable painting "Landscape No.2". By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of the World War II. Instructor is ordered to recover the stolen painting and the document, which triggers a diabolic mechanism of the past.

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Plot Keywords:

painting | document | blood | serial killer | male nudity | 

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Genres:

Crime | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Slovenia

Language:

Slovenian

Release Date:

5 June 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Landscape No.2

Filming Locations:

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Box Office

Budget:

€1,200,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Delirium, Forum Ljubljana

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Selected as Slovenia's official submission to the 82nd Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

User Reviews

plain awful

When you think Slovenian films can't surprise you any more... than you're pretty much correct, actually!

But before continuing, a warning: what follows isn't a review, it is a way of putting out the feelings this film left me with after seeing it about an hour ago. So, how did it make me feel? It made me tempted of suing, both writer and the director (sic) for wasting almost two hours of my life.

Awful, horrible banalization, stereotypization of EPIC proportions, completely unneeded accentuation of sex and violence... could go on, but... This film is bad in SO many levels, you can't even appreciate otherwise great actors.

It starts quite promising, but ends up as a simply stupid wannabe- slasher movie that leaves you with nothing more than a deep hate for the writer. I feel sorry for the actors who wasted their time and fine talent with such a skrapucalo (can't find an appropriate translation, terribly sorry). Making this story from otherwise deeply intriguing and dramatization- worth theme is nothing short of a crime.

The only thing that would make sense is, and I'm heavily speculating here, the Slovenian Film Found (financier) at the time was probably in the hands of our lovely right-wing politics, which likes to take any opportunity to modify or relativize understanding of history. In that context, the script might have made some sense (watch out for the old communist elite!), until the writer screws them up as well.

Now, no one would want to see this. It fails as a reviewer of history, it fails as a study of characters and relationships, and it fails as a slasher. No one should be wasting their time on this.

There are some properly good Slovenian movies. This isn't one. It makes you not wanting to see another one for a very long time.