Mathilde (first feature)

original title:

Mathilde

directed by:

cast:

Jeremy Irons, Dejan Acimovic, Lea Gramsdorff, Miki Manojlovic, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Radko Polic, Ksenija Marinkovic, Sinéad Cusack, Svetozar Cvetkovic, Ratislava Gacic, Richard Harrington, Finbar Lynch, Zelda Tinska

screenplay:

cinematography:

Phedon Papamichael

set design:

Jasna Dragovic

producer:

Rosaria Cutuli, Rocco Cesareo, Chris Curling, Joan Antoni González, Daniel Zuta

production:

ET Fiction Group, Silva Film, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura, Daniel Zuta Filmproduktion, Zephyr Films

country:

UK/Switzerland/Spain/Italy/France

year:

2005

film run:

90'

format:

35mm - colour

A colonel from Trieste from the Blue Helmets division is found dead on the beach at Vruia, beside a young Croat girl of 15 (Mathilde). The bullet which killed him came from a Beretta 9 calibre (the arm used by the Italian soldiers in the UN contingent) and the young girl is immediately accused of being guilty of the crime. But a Croatian journalist, who's a former psychologist, reconstructs the tormented and moving story of Mathilde and her son Miso, whom she had with a very dangerous Serbian war criminal Paradic, to eventually discover how the paths of the criminal and the Colonel from Trieste became crossed.