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Wikipedia article
'Rooster's Breakfast' is a Slovenian drama released in 2007. It is an adaptation of less known novel of the same name by Feri Lainek. The film is the most acclaimed and most successful Slovenian films of all times, and also the third most successful movie in Slovenia, following 'Titanic' and 'Troy'.
Plot
The film takes place in the Mura Valley, in the vicinity of Gornja Radgona. David Slavinec, nicknamed uro (Primo Bezjak) has recently been laid off from his job. However, his former boss points him to a new job at the automechanic shop owned by his acquaintance Piti Gaja (Vlado Novak), which he gladly accepts. Gaja is an experienced, but somewhat naive local car mechanic who frequently talks about the past times when, in his opinion, life was much better for the ordinary people. His friends frequently visit him to play cards and discuss the events happening around them.
Cveto Vuksanovi - Lepec, (Dario Varga) the town's biggest thug and the owner of the local night club, frequently visits Gaja to repair his Mercedes. Gaja always repairs the car for him although Lepec always finds an excuse not to pay the bill immediately, preferring payments in various small favors to Gaja and his friends. One day, uro meets Bronja, (Pia Zemlji), the wife of Lepec who brings in her car for repair. One day she asks uro to drive her to Austria to get some pills for her friend. They soon start meeting each other. On one occasion she tells uro that she and her husband have become estranged after the birth of their daughter and the pills were meant to cure her severe nervous breakdown. uro and Bronja start a passionate affair, which Gaja discovers, but keeps hidden from Lepec, who nevertheless becomes suspicious when he finds the lighter forgotten by uro in their bedroom.
In the meantime, Gaja dreams about Severina, a well-known Croatian pop star, who is on tour in the town. When Lepec drives his car in for a repair again, Gaja demands he pays the debts from the past. This time Lepec pays him some money and gives a promise he will bring Severina to his place to have a dinner with him. Late that evening, Severina comes and joins Gaja at the dinner.
The next morning Gaja joyfully tells uro that he had "rooster's breakfast" (i.e. morning sex) with Severina, but uro tells him that the girl he slept with wasn't the real Severina, but a lookalike prostitute. Soon Lepec appears and spots a necklace given to uro by Bronja, thus discovering their affair. After a quarrel with Lepec, Gaja pulls out the gun and shoots Lepec before he can strike uro. Some time later, uro visits Gaja in prison who orders him to take over his workshop and to maintain it in such order as did he. He then settles there with Bronja and her daughter.
Cast
*Vlado Novak - Piti Gaja
*Primo Bezjak - David Slavinec (uro)
*Pia Zemlji - Bronja Vuksanovi
*Dario Varga - Cveto Vuksanovi (Lepec)
*Janez kof - Jure Cekuta
*Davor Janji - Rajko Malai (Roki)
*Milo Battelino - Igor Pavlica
*Matija Rozman - Viktor Brodnik (Zobar)
*Bojan Emeri - Radmilovi
Awards
The film won 5 awards at the 10th Festival of Slovenian Film. It was also the Slovenian candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film nomination in 2009 (81st Academy Awards).
* 2007 Award for best film by choice of audiences at the 10th Slovenian Film Festival in Portoro for the feature film ROOSTERS BREAKFAST (Slovenia, Europe)
* 2007 Award for best directing at the 10th Slovenian Film Festival in Portoro for the feature film ROOSTERS BREAKFAST (Slovenia, Europe)
* 2007 Award for best screenplay at the 10th Slovenian Film Festival in Portoro for the feature film ROOSTERS BREAKFAST (Slovenia, Europe)
* 2007 - Stop Magazine Award at the 10th Slovenian Film Festival in Portoro for best actor/actress (Pia Zemlji) (Slovenia, Europe)
* 2007 Viktor Award for special achievements for successful distribution of the feature film ROOSTERS BREAKFAST (Slovenia, Europe)
* 2009 Golden Bird Award for film achievements for the feature film ROOSTERS BREAKFAST (Slovenia, Europe)
* 2009 Critics Award at the 4th Annual South East European Film Festival, Cinema Without Borders, Los Angeles for best feature film ROOSTERS BREAKFAST (Los Angeles, USA)
References
Further information
* http://www.petelinjizajtrk.com/
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