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Croatian Oscar Entry ‘Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day’ Director Ivona Juka Talks Challenges Of Making 1950s LGBT Persecution Drama
Croatian Oscar Entry ‘Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day’ Director Ivona Juka Talks Challenges Of Making 1950s LGBT Persecution Drama
Croatian actor Dado Ćosić stars as partisan hero Lovro who fought the local fascist forces of the Ustashas and the Nazis as a young man during WWII and then built a career as a film director in peacetime. Homosexuality was increasingly discriminated against by Yugoslavia’s ruling Communist Party in the 1950s, and officially criminalized in 1959, with the ban lifted in the republics of Croatia and Slovenia in 1977, with Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia only following suit after the country’s break-up in the 1990s. Contacted by Deadline, the institute outright denies the claims, saying the filmmakers submitted paperwork for their awards funding request late, and that additionally, this year, it has decided to focus its efforts on The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent due its Cannes credentials.
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