Fine Dead Girls (Croatian: Fine mrtve djevojke; also distributed internationally as Nice Dead Girls) is a 2002 Croatian drama film that premiered in July 2002, at the Pula Film Festival. The film has been named one of the best Croatian films since Croatia's independence.[2] It caught much attention due to its controversial, provocative themes.
Iva (Olga Pakalović) and Marija (Nina Violić), a lesbian couple, rent an apartment in Zagreb in a building that seems to provide a quiet and safe environment for their love, but over time the atmosphere in the building becomes more and more threatening.
The elder landlady Olga (Inge Appelt) dominates the building. Other tenants include her calm husband, her grown-up son Daniel (Krešimir Mikić) who has a crush on Iva, the prostitute Lidija (Jadranka Đokić), an abused housewife, a widower keeping the corpse of his newly deceased wife, a gynecologist (Boris Miholjević) performing abortions in one flat of the house, and an ex-soldier who regularly plays martial music at night. The characters are meant to display the madness of the post-war Croatian society.
Marija's conservative religious father secretly stalks his daughter, and pays Lidija to try to seduce Iva, which fails.
After Olga finds out that Iva and Marija are lesbians, the situation escalates to rape, murder and kidnapping.
Croatia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (not nominated)[6][7]
References
^Polimac, Nenad (30 July 2002). "Fine mrtve djevojke - najbolji hrvatski film od Maršala". Nacional (in Croatian). Zagreb. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
^Malašić Lazić, Gordana (17 June 2016). "Pula film festival: Najbolji filmovi u posljednjih 25 godina su…". Scena.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
Fine Dead Girls at Filmski-Programi.hr (in Croatian)
February 02, 2023
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