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GOEAST PRESENTS I SEPTEMBER 2012

THE PARADE / PARADA

A homophobic, middle-aged Serbian gangster ends up sacrificing himself to protect Gay freedom in his country. Mirko is a Gay rights activist and his dream is to organize the first successful PRIDE event in Belgrade. This is almost a "mission impossible"; in 2001, an attempt to hold PRIDE in Belgrade ended up in bloodshed. One decade later, the situation is not much better - Nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations prepare another massacre in case of holding the gay parade, while the police refuse to provide protection for the participants. A strange couple arrives in Radmilo's and Mirko's life - Lemon an ex criminal and war veteran, and his fiancée Pearl a beauty parlor owner. Radmilo, a successful veterinarian, performs a life-saving operation on Lemon's pit-pull terrier, the victim of a drive-by shooting that served as a warning to the dog's master. Mirko runs an agency that organizes sophisticated weddings and now he has the ultimate nightmare clients - Lemon and Pearl. The encounter between these two worlds ends in disaster - yet another humiliation for Radmilo and Mirko. Mirko had enough - not long ago he received an Immigrant Visa from Canada and wants to leave the country forever. Radmilo is ready for a desperate measures to keep his partner and their relationship - he offers a deal to Lemon, asking that Lemon's agency provides protection for the Belgrade Pride. In return, Mirko will organize the wedding party for Lemon and Pearl. Lemon reluctantly accepts, but his staff refuses to protect homosexuals. Put in a tight spot, Lemon thinks of his "dear" enemies from the ex-Yu wars. Lemon and Radmilo embark on a recruiting trip all over ex-Yugoslavia.

Serbia/Croatia/Macedonia/Slovenia 2011
Director/Script: Srđjan Dragojević
Cinematography: Dušan Joksimović
Music: Igor Perović
With: Nikola Kojo, Miloš Samolov, Hristina Popović, Goran Jevtić

115 Min., OV with English subtitles

Tuesday, 11.09.2012; 8.00 pm; Caligari FilmBühne, Wiesbaden

further screenings: 13.09., 8.00 pm OV with English subtitles,
15.09., 6.30 pm and 17.09., 6.30 pm German Version

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