Vinko Möderndorfer

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Novelist, poet, playwright, essay writer and a director of theatre, radio, film and TV. He graduated in theatre and radio directing from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television at the University of Ljubljana and tackled all theatre types, styles and genres during his soul-searching as a director. In TV media he mostly directed TV plays and documentaries based on his own scripts.

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Romeo and Juliet Were Refugees (2017)

It’s not just people who are running from war that are refugees. A refugee is anyone who lives in their own country but cannot live off their work. These people are refugees in their own nation, amongst their own people, in a system that used and discarded them, even though they played an important role in it. We live in times of global refugees. We are convinced that other people are refugees, but in fact we are, too.

Sisters (2017)

A crime drama about very intimate issues

Europa (2013)

Comedy about the possibilities, which the over glorified Europe offers to the young people – the Slovenian version

A Little Night Quartet (2013)

"The play takes place every night from 11.14 p.m. to 11.34 p.m. and from 3.56 a.m. to 5.04 a.m.”

Exercises in Anxiety (2010)

The play Exercises in Anxiety, subtitled »a play about today’s times«, cuts into the psychopathy of the present with an extraordinary sharpness.

A Beautiful Day to Die (2007)

“Language is character. Language is rebellion.” – A play about a generation clash.

At the Bottom (2006)

A family – father, mother, two sons, their lover and grandmother – are living in utter misery and poverty. Their home is a dark cellar, their usual meal is a soup of rotten vegetables and rat meat.

Check Mate (2005)

"I think our new government with such an eager Minister of Work, Family and Moral Reform, will be able to get many useful things done.”

Three Sisters (2002)

This comedy features a professor of Russian language, a fanatical lover of Chekhov who, for this reason, not only owns a cherry orchard, but his three daughters are named after the Three Sisters (Olga, Irina and Masha). At his golden wedding anniversary, the daughters are shocked by the parents’ decision to file for an uncontested divorce.

Mephisto's Report (2002)

"Good literature always speaks of its time without saying any particular words about it.”

In the Country (2001)

"Don’t go fooling around with Linhart now, mother! Europe awaits!"

Camera Obscura (1988)

“And so, on a Shrove Tuesday night, all these people meet ‘by chance’ in a half-built flat. That is the start of a story that needs to unwind before our eyes in a single theatrical stroke with all its rises and falls, as is typical of such carnivalesque, unpredictable and entirely drunken nights.”

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