Živa istina (1972)

Directed by

Tomislav Radić

Genre

drama film

Country

Yugoslavia

Runtime

1h 18m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A struggling actress navigates her everyday life in Yugoslavia. The film follows her personal and professional challenges with a cinéma vérité style.

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What happens

The Living Truth (Živa istina), also released as Real Truth, is a 1972 Yugoslav film directed and written by Tomislav Radić, starring Božidarka Frajt. Radić's directorial debut, a very low-budget cinéma vérité-style film about the everyday life of a struggling actress was met with critical acclaim and is considered one of the best Croatian films of the 1970s. It started the career of Božidarka Frajt, whose performance won the Golden Arena for Best Actress at the 1972 Pula Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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