Fine Dead Girls

Fine Dead Girls

Directed by	Dalibor Matanić
Produced by	Jozo Patljak
Written by	Dalibor Matanić, Mate Matišić
Starring	Olga Pakalović Nina Violić Inge Appelt Krešimir Mikić Ivica Vidović Jadranka Đokić Boris Miholjević Milan Štrljić
Music by	Jura Ferina, Pavle Miholjević
Cinematography	Branko Linta
Edited by	Tomislav Pavlić
Release dates	2002 (Croatia)
Running time	77 min
Country	Croatia
Language	Croatian

Fine Dead Girls (Croatian: Fine mrtve djevojke), sometimes also Nice Dead Girls is a 2002 film introduced on Pula Film Festival. The film has been named one of the best Croatian movies of the last decade. It caught much attention due to its controversial, provocative themes.

Plot

Iva and Marija, who are a lesbian couple, rent an apartment in Zagreb in a building that seems to be quiet and a safe environment for their love. But as time passes by, the atmosphere in the house gets more and more aggressive.

Elder Olga is dominating the house. Other tenants include her calm husband and her grown-up son Daniel (who has a crush on Iva), the prostitute Lidija, an abused housewife, a widower keeping the corpse of his newly deceased wife, a gynecologist 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.

The conservative religious father of Marija is secretly tracing 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.

Cast

Olga Pakalović as Iva
Nina Violić as Marija
Krešimir Mikić as Daniel
Inge Appelt as Olga the Landlady
Ivica Vidović as Blaž
Milan Štrljić
Mirko Boman
Jadranka Đokić as Lidija the Prostitute
Boris Miholjević as Perić the Gynecologist
Marina Poklepović as Marina Kostelac
Janko Rakos
Ilija Zovko

Awards and nominations

Pula Film Festival 2002

Audience Award "Golden Gate Pula"
Big Golden Arena – Jozo Patljak
Golden Arena – Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Ivica Vidović, Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Olga Pakalović, Best Director: Dalibor Matanić

Geneva Cinéma Tout Ecran 2003

Young Jury Award – Dalibor Matanić

Sochi International Film Festival 2003

Special Jury Award – Dalibor Matanić (tied with At kende sandheden (2002))
Golden Rose – Dalibor Matanić (nominated)

External links

Fine Dead Girls at the Internet Movie Database
Fine Dead Girls at Filmski-Programi.hr (Croatian)

Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the Pula Film Festival

As Yugoslav Film Awards (1957–90)	Priests Ćira and Spira (1957) H-8 (1958) Train Without a Timetable (1959) The Ninth Circle (1960) Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud & The First Fires (1961) Kozara (1962) Face to Face (1963) Official Position (1964) Prometheus of the Island & Three (1965) Monday or Tuesday (1966) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) When I Am Pale and Dead (1968) Downstream from the Sun (1969) Handcuffs (1970) Red Wheat (1971) The Master and Margaret (1972) The Battle of Sutjeska (1973) The Republic of Užice (1974) The House (1975) Idealist (1976) Don't Lean Out the Window (1977) Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978) Trophy (1979) Petria's Wreath (1980) The Fall of Italy (1981) Body Scent (1983) Balkan Spy (1984) When Father Was Away on Business (1985) Happy New Year '49 (1986) Reflections (1987) My Uncle's Legacy (1988) The Meeting Point (1989) Silent Gunpowder (1990)

As Croatian Film Awards (1992–present)	Story from Croatia (1992) Countess Dora (1993) Washed Out (1995) How the War Started on My Island (1996) Mondo Bobo (1997) When the Dead Start Singing (1998) Madonna (1999) Marshal Tito's Spirit (2000) Slow Surrender (2001) Fine Dead Girls (2002) Here (2003) Long Dark Night (2004) What Iva Recorded (2005) All for Free (2006) The Living and the Dead (2007) No One's Son (2008) Metastases (2009) Just Between Us (2010) Kotlovina (2011) A Letter to My Father (2012) A Stranger (2013) Number 55 (2014)

Films directed by Dalibor Matanić

Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside (2000) Fine Dead Girls (2002) 100 Minutes of Glory (2004) I Love You (2005) The Lika Cinema (2008) Mother of Asphalt (2010) Daddy (2011) Handymen (2013) The High Sun (2015)