The feature film Ivana the Terrible / Ivana cea Groaznică, a Romanian-Serbian production directed by Ivana Mladenović, was included in the selections of other three prestigious festivals which will soon take place. The second feature film directed by the actress and screenwriter Ivana Mladenović will be released in the Romanian cinemas on March 13, 2020.
In the meantime, the production will be presented at the FEST Belgrade which will finish on March 8, then it will be part of other festivals: CPH:DOX (Denmark, March 18 - 29) and Vilnius International Film Festival (Lithuania, March 19 - April 2).
After having received the Special Award of the Jury of the Cineasti del Presente section of the 2019 Locarno Film Festival, the production received also the Golden Pram Trophy for the Best Film of the Zagreb Film Festival. The film was presented in more international festivals and in Romania it had the preview during the Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest festival.
This year, the production was presented – among others – at the Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers (France), Trieste Film Festival (Italy) and Göteborg Film Festival (Sweden).
Ivana the Terrible is a nonconventional story about people and places, about belonging and longing, told with humour and tenderness.
The Serbian actress Ivana works and lives in Romania, but after several health issues, she decides to spend her summer on the other side of the Danube, in Kladovo, her native little town, surrounded by her family.
The mayor invites her to be the image of the most important local event – the music festival Friendship Bridge – and though she is not very convinced, Ivana accepts it. After the arrival of her eccentric friends from Bucharest and as the gossip about her having a younger lover spreads around her town, Ivana arrives on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The family and friends are invited to bring on the screen their own emotions and to play themselves in a film story about a woman who can`t find her place on neither side of the Danube.
The main part is played by Ivana Mladenović; the film features Luka Gramić, Ivana`s parents, Gordana Mladenović and Miodrag Mladenović, the brother Kosta Mladenović, the grandmother Zivka Sorejević, Andrei Dinescu and the late artist Anca Pop.
The film was written and directed by Ivana Mladenović, Adrian Schiop is the co-writer, the artistic direction is signed by Ana Szel and Andrei Rus and the cinematography by Carmen Tofeni. the film was edited by Patricia Chelaru and Cătălin Cristuțiu, the costumes were signed by Iulia Popescu, the production design was signed by Radmila Simić, Rada Dronjak and Gordana Mladenović, the make-up artists are Iulia Popescu and Dejana Petrucić. The producers are Ada Solomon and Ivana Mladenović. Ivana the Terrible is a microFILM România and Dunav 84 Serbia production, in association with the Romanian Television, nomada.solo, Verde Stop Arena, with the support of the Romanian National Centre and Film centre Serbia. With the financial support of Hollywood Multiplex and United Romanian Breweries Bereprod.
The second feature film directed by the actress and screenwriter Ivana Mladenović will be released in the Romanian cinemas on March 13, 2020.
Bucharest and as the gossip about her having a younger lover spreads around her town, Ivana arrives on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
