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FРIУLБMРИКА Gjorgji Janevski
The debut feature film of Vardan Tozija, The author is
which plays in the Macedonian movie a cultural worker
theaters, is an ambitious film achievement
which captures the spirit of time and
encourages a wider social discussion.
DZGAN (SCUM)
H ope for the best, be pre- star.
pared for the worst. This The announcement of the film says:
is the motto wherewith
the author of these lines “A sequence of cruel circumstances
and a movie theater visi- turns a silent and a reticent boy into
tor, having learnt from his personal a cruel, uncompromising leader of a
experience, stoically approaches to group of rejected wards of a center
each new Macedonian film. for children without parents. Togeth-
er they start a blind revenge towards
The national cinematography, the world behind their walls, which
whose only constant in the past 25 inflicted them only pain and suffer-
years is the absence of a develop- ing. The world where only one thing
ment strategy, in one way or another exists for them can be named with
is only a part of the greater image, a only one, common name – DZGAN
piece of the mosaic that makes the (SCUM).” In such circumstances, the
society we live in. For this reason, ev- title of the film gets a multilateral
ery new flash at least for a while re- meaning.
turns the hope for a brighter future
of the Macedonian film. On the traces of his short film “The
Whistler” (part of the omnibus Sko-
Starting from the intelligent and pje Remix from 2012), which takes
visually sustained marketing cam- place in the city catacombs in some
paign, it became evident that not distant future, in “Dzgan (Scum)”,
only that DZGAN (SCUM) is not be- Tozija’s “rats” come to the surface in
ing hidden from its audience, on the the city of the present, however the
contrary, it essentially wants to com- dystopian vision remains unchanged.
municate with it and with the wider The hyper-realistic photograph by
social context, here and now. This Vladimir Samoilovski and the pro-
ambition in the debut feature film duction design by Kiril Spaseski and
of Vardan Tozija turns into a guiding Natasha Dimitrievska, with a focus
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