Cure –The Life of Another

Dubrovnik 1993: one year after the siege of the city by Serbian troops. Fourteen-year-old Linda has moved back to Croatia from Switzerland with her father. Her new best friend Eta takes her up to the forbidden forest above the city. The two girls become entangled in an obsessive, sexually charged game of swapping identities that leads to a fatal fall. The following morning, Linda comes back alone; slowly she begins to take Eta’s place in her family. Ivo, Eta’s boyfriend, is drawn in as well. In troubled times dominated by women and the losses they have suffered in the war, Linda risks losing her footing, as she becomes entrapped in another world on the edge; a world in which Eta keeps coming back to confront her with herself
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Andrea Staka, Thomas Imbach, Marie Kreutzer
Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht
Editing: Tom La Belle
Sound: Peter Braker
Music: Milica Paranosic
Actors: Sylvie Marinkovic (Linda), Lucia Radulovic (Eta), Mirjana Karanovic (Eta’s grandmother), Marija Skaricic (Eta’s mother), Leon Lucev (Linda’s father)
Production: Okofilm Production, Switzerland
Producers: Thomas Imbach, Andrea Staka
Co-production: Ziva Produkcija (Croatia) & Deblokada (Serbia)
Costumes: Linda Harper
Production Design: Su Erdt
Format: DCP Color
Production Country: Switzerland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Production Year: 2014
Duration: 83
Contact: Okofilm Production, SwitzerlandT. +41 44 240 5856info@okofilm.chwww.okofilm.chwww.cure-film.com
Awards
Best Actress Award (Sylvie Marinkovic) – BIAFF Badumi 2014, Georgia

Andrea Staka

Born in 1973, she lives in Zurich. She graduated from the MFA film program at Zurich’s School of Visual Arts. Her previous films, Hotel Belgrad and Yugodivas, have brought her great recognition at film festivals such as Locarno and Sundance. In 2005, she received a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant. Her first feature film, Das Fraulein, won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno IFF, the Heart of Sarajevo, and the Swiss Film Award for Best Script. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

Filmography

(selected)
1995 Ruza (short)
1998 Hotel Belgrad (short)
1999 Daleko (short)
2000 Yugodivas (short)
2006 Das Fraulein
2014 Cure – Das Leben einer Anderen