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
editing:
set design:
Jasna Dragovic
music:
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.