15 Dec 2005
The Secret Life of Words
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
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In Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let them watch the televised Olympic final basketball game between the home country and the U.S., but taunting guards interrupt the viewing and prod the prisoners to the point of a riot. After a period of a kind of blissful anarchy where the inmates taste freedom, Keber enlists the house "intellectual" Mrak to devise a system of prisoner self-government aimed at forcing reforms on the state.
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Jernej Šugman Keber
Ksenija Mišič Leonca
Uroš Potočnik Johan Bauman
Radko Polič Alojz Mrak
Primož Petkovšek Ban
Ivo Godnič Jože 'Pepo' Valant
Haris Burina Šiptar
Petre Arsovski Mitke Mitrović
Esad Babačić Lape
Bogdan Diklić Dr. Terzić
Vasilij Polič Stari
Joža Hrovat Meznar
Vlado Novak Paznik Albert
Miloš Battelino Buldog
Maja Lešnik Maša
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