Monument to Michael Jackson (2014)

Original title: Spomenik Majklu Džeksonu

Producers: Snežana Penev, Darko Lungulov
Produced by: Papa Films
Co-producer: Intermedia Network
Director: Darko Lungulov
Screenplay: Darko Lungulov
Director of photography: Mathias Schoeningh
Music: Dejan Pejović
Production designer: Kiril Spaseski
Costumes: Zora Mojsilović
Cast: Boris Milivojević, Nataša Tapušković, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Ljubomir Bandović, Branislav Trifunović, Toni Mihajlovski, Mirjana Karanović, Marko Janketić, Srđan Miletić, Ema Terzić
Running time: 95mins
Format: 35mm, Beta SP, color
Sound: Dolby digital
Release date: Autumn, 2013
Genre: Tragicomedy, Romance

SYNOPSIS:

In a dying town in Serbia, an old communist-era monument is removed from the Square. Marko, a daydreamer, is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life, Ljubinka. She is disappointed in him and the life in Serbian small-town. Out of despair, he comes up with the idea to replace the communist-era statue with a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his dying town and seduce his wife again. Marko convinces his close friends to help him. However, the town’s mayor has his own plans and uses right-wing group “Clean Serbia” to crash Marko’s dream.

Desperate, Marko falsifies Michael Jackson’s letter and convinces the mayor and everybody else that Jackson will come to the monument’s unveiling. The town is now revitalized and its citizens full of hope while Marko regains the love of his wife. But on the big day, Marko is disguised as Michael Jackson and waves to the crowd from the helicopter, the death of real Michael Jackson’s is announced without him knowing. The group “Clean Serbia” creates the chaos. The insane turn of events unexpectedly leads to the fulfillment of Marko’s plan, but in an absurd and darkly ironic fashion.