Praslovan

Slovenia, B&H, Croatia, Serbia, 2024; 112' DCP
Director: Slobodan Maksimović

Cankarjev dom Cinema Praslovan

Screenplay: Slobodan Maksimović
Cinematography: Rožle Bregar
Editing: Jurij Moškon
Cast: Zoran Predin, Oto Rimele, Karpo Godina, Boris Bele, Đorđe Balašević, Boris Cavazza, etc.

An emotional and inspiring biopic, Praslovan follows the life and career of Zoran Predin, one of former Yugoslavia’s most important singer-songwriters. The film traces Predin’s journey from his youth in Maribor, where he started playing music, to the height of his fame with the band Lačni Franz and his solo career, which made him a music scene icon.

Zoran’s Naj ti poljub nariše ustnice was the first song of his that I heard. As a native Sarajevan, I didn't understand more than the chorus, but I felt the brutal rhythm and the unusual melodicism of Zoran's velvety voice so strongly that I instantly fell in love. Borrowing the words of the writer Miljenko Jergović, one of the interviewees in our film: it’s an essential truth that no one in the history of the Slovenian language has encouraged its spread across five or six countries as strongly as Zoran. A large number of people began learning Slovenian because of Zoran Predin. To understand his lyrics. It’s still happening today.
Slobodan Maksimović, MMC

Zoran was a member of the new wave of Yugoslav rock music. The film outlines this period, the events, the emergence of the movement within the system, how the system influenced Predin's music. The film will prove highly informative both for the viewers who remember that period and those who don't know anything about it. Slobodan Maksimović

Slobodan Maksimović – filmography (selection)
Štiri skice za portret Janeza Drozga (2008), Hvala za Sunderland (2012), Tehnika ljudstvu (2015), Od Soče do Sočija (2015), Nika (2016), Kapa (2022)

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