top of page

The Frog

Year: 2017 / Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia / Runtime: 78 min. / Languages: Bosnian

Zeko, a barber and ex-soldier suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, invites his brother Braco and his friend Švabo to Eid festivities. He intends to take advantage of the festive mood and ask his brother, a gambler and alcoholic, to change his ways. Braco doesn’t want to listen and will not take the conversation seriously. Zeko puts a razor under his brother’s neck, forcing him to promise he will change; furious, Braco leaves, telling Zeko he will never see him again, while Švabo suggests that Zeko see a psychiatrist. Alone, without his only friend and his brother, Zeko decides to kill himself – until Muki, a young man selling books door-to-door, stops him.

Production company: Refresh Production, BIH

Co-production company: Skopje Film Studio MKD; Living Pictures SRB and Propeller Film HRV

Producer: Ademir KENOVIC

Co-producers: Tomi SALKOVSKI, Dimce STOJANOVSKI, Boris MATIC

Directed by Elmir JUKIC; Screenplay by Pjer ZALICA and Elmir JUKIC; Cinematographer Dejan DIMESKI; Production designer Mario IVEZIC; Costume designer Lejla GRAHO; Make up Lamija HADZIHASANOVIC; Sound designer Igor POPOVSKI

​​

CAST: Emir HADZIHAFIZBEGOVIC, Aleksandar SEKSAN, Mirsad TUKA, Moamer KASUMOVIC

Festivals and Awards

2018 - 6. Balkan Florence Express, Italy - Special Mention for outstanding acting achievement (Emir Hadzihafizbegovic)

2017 - 23. Sarajevo International Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina / BIH Open Air - World Premiere - Audience Award; 38. International Cinematographers' Film Festival "Manaki Brothers" / Camera 300 Official Competition - Bronze Camera 300

bottom of page