Thirty-something Anica feels restless in her dead-end life with an older man and small-time mobster in Belgrade. Milutin’s caring affection for her isn’t enough; Anica longs for true love. She has secretly decided to finally leave the country for good and start anew. Tonight she’ll empty Milutin’s safe of protection money and leave everything and everyone behind.
So today is a very big day for Anica. She has a lot to do as she anticipates the moment when she’ll part with her imperfect life – telling her grandmother goodbye, giving overdue beauty tips to a girlfriend. What Anica doesn’t know is that today is also an important day for those around her. A day for numerous confessions, confrontations and revelations. Milutin must ponder his own feelings as a single parent of a mute teenage daughter. Milutin’s young right hand man Stanislav is having a busy day himself handling skirmishes with competitors and dealing with his emotionally fragile singer mother. But it’s sensitive young thug Stanislav’s confession of love to Anica which could change everything on this very day …
Anica / ANICA DOBRA /// Stanislav / VUK KOSTIC /// Milutin / FEDJA STOJANOVIC /// Stanislav’s mother / MILENA DRAVIC /// Ivana / HANNA SCHWAMBORN
DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTWRITER / STEFAN ARSENIJEVIC ///
PRODUCERS / HERBERT SCHWERING,
MIROSLAV MOGOROVIC ///
CO-PRODUCERS / GABRIELE
KRANZELBINDER,
JANEZ KOVIC ///
CINEMATOGRAPHER / SIMON TANSEK ///
EDITOR / ANDREW BIRD ///
ART DIRECTOR / VOLKER SCHAEFER ///
A PRODUCTION OF / COIN FILM (GERMANY),
ART & POPCORN (SERBIA) ///
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH / KGP (AUSTRIA),
STUDIO ARKADENA
(SLOVENIA),
WDR and ORF ///
SUPPORTED BY / EURIMAGES, FILM CENTER
SERBIA, FILMSTIFTUNG
NRW, BKM, VIENNA FILM
FUND, FFA, BELGRAD
SECRETARY FOR CULTURE,
SLOVENIAN FILM FUND,
ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG,
SERBIAN MINISTRY OF
CULTURE, HUBERT BALS
FUND, SEECN
FORMAT 35 mm / 1:1,85 / Colour / Dolby Digital / LENGTH
105 min. / ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Serbian / SUBTITLES English
LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES is Stefan Arsenijevic’s first feature film. He directed the “Fabulous Vera” episode of the 2005 omnibus feature LOST AND FOUND. Arsenijevic directed the multi-award-winning 2003 short (A)TORSION (among others, Berlin Golden Bear, European Film Award, Oscar Nomination). Born in 1977 in Belgrade, Arsenijevic studied philosophy then received his degree in Film and TV Direction at the Belgrade Dramatic Arts Faculty. He is a co-founder of the Belgrade-based production company Art & Popcorn.
2008 LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES (feature) /// 2005 “FABULOUS VERA” episode of Lost and Found (omnibus feature) /// 2003 (A)TORSION (short) /// 2002 LITTLE MORNING STORY (short) /// 2001 NIGHT PORTER (short) /// 2000 Landscapes (documentary) /// 2000 PLUM TREE (short) 
