Synopsis

Gucˇa, a village of 5,000 inhabitants in Central Serbia enjoys an extreme popularity in the Balkans. At some 150 km from Belgrade, every August for the last 48 years a festival has been held: the Sabor Trubacˇa, the biggest competition for Brass Orchestras in the world. The film tells the story of the Gucˇa’s festival but also wants to explain the deep relation between Serbs and the trumpet. The film follows the daily life of Gvozden Rosic‘, a peasant of Rti, a village 5 km from Gucˇa. Gvozden, chief of a local orchestra, in 2001 won the prize for the Best Trumpet. In Rti we see Gvozden and his group in an impressive funeral, in the way it is still celebrated only in some parts of Serbian province: the tractor tows a cart with the coffin on it along the small way that clambers from the house of the deceased up to the village cemetery. In front of the procession stand the cross and some cakes, just behind them Gvozden’s orchestra. At the end of the funeral all the participants eat and drink on the grave of the deceased. As seen from Gvozden’s case, the trumpet has a deep relation with Serbians. In Serbia trumpets play when children are born. They are also played for their baptism, when boys leave to do their military service, when they get married and when they move to their new house. They are played in the feasts where people dance and sing, but they also play in funerals: trumpet music accompanies the deceased also in his last trip. Not surprisingly, the trumpet became an emotional part of the life of Serbian people. ​

감독

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  • 알레산드로 고리
  • 알레산드로 고리는 외국 문학과 언어 전공으로 베니스의 대학을 졸업하고 프리랜서 기자로 활동하며 15개국에서 기사와 사진들을 발표해왔다. 1991년 이래 발칸 반도, 특히 세르비아에 자주 여행하며 지역 문화에 매료되었고 친구와 함께 < First Travel Guide to Serbia>를 이탈리아 판으로 번역하기도 했다.​

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  • 스테파노 미시오
  • 스테파노 미시오는 프랑스 소르본대학과 로마의 영화학교를 졸업했으며 필름과 디지털로 다양한 다큐멘터리 작업 해왔다. 그가 연출한 다수의 다큐멘터리들은 세계 여러 영화제에서 상영되었고 유럽 유수의 TV 채널에서 방영되기도 했다.