Guardians of the Formula (Chain Reaction)
Year: 2023 / Countries: Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Montenegro / Runtime: 120 min. / Language: Serbian, French
October 1958, the Cold War is at its peak. A group of young communist scientists get irradiated with a lethal dose of uranium. They are sent to Paris for medical treatment by Prof. Mathé. Certain that they were making a nuclear weapon, Mathé proposes the first-ever human bone marrow transplant. Is it an experiment with living humans or does he truly want to help them?
Production company: Cobra Film, Ton Film SRB
Co-production Companies: Perfo Productions SVN, Skopje Film Studio MKD, Bitter Frames MNE
Producer: Dragan BJELOGRLIC, Dragan SOLAK
Co-producers: Miroslav MOGOROVIC, Ales PAVLIN, Andrej STRITOV, Tomi SALKOVSKI, GJORGJE VOJVODIC, Dejan CAKAJAC
Directed by Dragan BJELOGRLIC; Screenplay by: Dragan BJELOGRLIC, Vuk RSUMOVIC, Ognjen SVILICIC, Cinematography by: Ivan KOSTIC; Original Music by Aleksandar RANGJELOVIC; Sound Recordist Igor POPOVSKI, Sound Design Branko NESKOV, Edited by Milena PREDIC; Production Design Jelena SOPIC, Jovana CVETKOVIC; Costume Design by Marina Vukasovic MEDENICA; Make-up by Goran IGNJATOVSKI
CAST: Alexis MANENTI, Radivoje BUKVIC, Lionel ABELANSKI, Jeremie LAHEURTE, Olivier BARTHELEMY, Ognjen MICOVIC, Jovan JOVANOVIC, Anne SERRA, Alisa RADAKOVIC, Jean-Louis COULLOC'H, Cedric APPIETTO, Predrag Miki MANOJLOVIC, Dragan BJELOGRLIC
Festivals and Awards
2023 - 76. Locarno International Film Festival - Pardo Verde Ricola, Variety Piazza Grande Award; 29. Sarajevo Film Festival, BIH; 8. KineNova Film Festival - Best Film Award; 16. CinEast Film Festival; 47. Sao Paulo International Film Festival; 24. Arras Film Festival; 21. Zagreb Film Festival; 34. Ljubljana Film Festival; 27. Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival