Summary
Dejan Šorak: American-Croatian in Color
part three Desdemona and the Devil
The saga of Dejan Šorak's film "American-Croatian in Color" in its second part "Venice of Death" follows the life of director Dezdemona Marin, the fourth generation of a Croatian immigrant family linked by fate with the film.
Dezdemona Marin, according to her grandmother's script. and Hollywood screenwriter Lucia Marin, with a film crew made up of freaks - a director of photography who learned his craft in the Vietnam War, a lighting engineer who is an electric chair repairman and a butcher for special effects - in the swamps of Louisiana, after a successfully directed porn film, he shoots his first real film, a low-budget horror. But in addition to all the possible problems and dramas that accompany a film set set on the ruins of Venice in the swamps of Louisiana, a powerful film producer and impure forces, including love, interfere in the filming.
Dejan Šorak portrays the anciently complicated family relations of the Marins and the complex power play of the participants of the film set so well and convincingly that everything complex becomes simple - without simplifying anything. The story of the shooting of the horror, workingly titled "Death in Venice", becomes a drama and a study of the shooting of the film. Emancipated and passionate women from the Marin family are a new type in our literature.
VENICE OF DEATH
Starring: Dezdemona Marin - director; Marija Marin - her grandmother, screenwriter; Arcangelo Santo - alleged producer; Goldfarb Junior - studio owner; Mercedes Kandinsky - actress; Frog Little Heart - witch doctor; Giordano - sheriff in Venice, Louisiana; Larry Bonaro - cameraman and alcoholic; Fred Zipper - sound-master and associate of secret services; Luther - master of special effects...
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