Real Truth

Real Truth (1972)

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Božidarka Frajt (playing herself) is an actress who is unsuccessfully looking for a job in Zagreb. The film follows her everyday life: she spends time with her friends and colleagues, shoots a television commercial, goes to a party, remembers her difficult childhood as a war orphan, and contemplates her professional and personal failures. Finally, she visits theatre manager Vjeran Zuppa in his office and asks for a job.

Date of release
1972-07-13
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Drama
Director
Tomislav Radić

Casting

Interesting facts

The Living Truth, also released as Real Truth, is a 1972 Yugoslav film directed and written by Tomislav Radić, starring Božidarka Frajt.

Production

The film was shot in the first half of 1971, over nine working days, in ultra-low budget conditions, using 16 mm black-and-white film which was later transferred to 35 mm format. Framing and camera movement were not planned in advance; instead, the decisions were made on the spot, in agreement between the cinematographer Dragutin Novak and the director.

Radić gave the following background of the film's final scene with Božidarka Frajt and Vjeran Zuppa:

Vjeran Zuppa was at the time my boss at the ITD Theater, where he was the general manager and I was the technical director. I thought it'd be a good idea to shoot a scene in which this actress, the protagonist, is looking for a job and is unable to get it. [...] There was no predetermined dialogue. The instructions were for Boža [Božidarka Frajt] to ask for a job, and whatever she asked for, Zuppa was to dismiss. And that's how they did it.

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