Directed by:
Igor Ivanov IzyCinematography:
Tomi SalkovskiComposer:
Zoran SpasovskiCast:
Labina Mitevska, Ana Stojanovska, Jordan Simonov, Kamka Tocinovski, Nikola Ristanovski, Elena Mosevska, Dimitrija Doksevski, Milan Tocinovski, Goran Ilic, Jovica Mihajlovski, Petar Mircevski (more)Plots(1)
Hideous corners of the city, scenes without a trace of sophistication, depressing enclosed spaces – this is the setting chosen for the desperate life drama of young Jan Ludvik. Its individual chapters are recalled as retrospectives by Jan himself as he travels in a train hurtling through the darkening landscape, in the company of a random female passenger whose miserable exterior renders her the embodiment of the bleakest of destinies. Jan was a gifted student and, by some strange quirk of fate, also a talented circus artist, but the world in which he lives drives him only to self-destructive actions. Everything is marked by degradation, even love, for which cheap porn clubs are often an eloquent stage, and whose object is a palpably degenerate girl; several scenes are deliberately set in dingy, graffiti-covered urinals. Upside Down presents a modernised version of the film expressionism of the past; in this case, the wasted life of an individual forms a parallel to the disintegration engulfing society as a whole, a society which lacks spiritual horizons. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Labina Mitevska
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Monahikoi typoi (2000)
Before the Rain (1994)
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Ana Stojanovska
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
Mothers (2010)
Jordan Simonov
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
Secret Ingredient (2017)
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Kamka Tocinovski
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
Three Days in September (2015)
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Nikola Ristanovski
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Black Sun (2017) (series)
Cabaret Balkan (1998)
Montevideo: Taste of a Dream (2010)
Elena Mosevska
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
Great Water (2004)
Mirage (2004)
Dimitrija Doksevski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
The Border Post (2006)
Upside Down (2007)
The Third Half (2012)
Milan Tocinovski
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
The Third Half (2012)
Goran Ilic
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
The Third Half (2012)
Bal-Can-Can (2005)
Jovica Mihajlovski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Srečna nova '49 (1986)
Tetoviranje (1991)
Upside Down (2007)
Petar Mircevski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Black Sun (2017) (series)
Before the Rain (1994)
The Border Post (2006)
Ilko Stefanovski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Before the Rain (1994)
Tetoviranje (1991)
Upside Down (2007)
Silvija Stojanovska
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Before the Rain (1994)
Upside Down (2007)
Djordji Jolevski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Tetoviranje (1991)
Upside Down (2007)
Katarina Ilievska
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
Secret Ingredient (2017)
Great Water (2004)
Nadzi Shaban
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
The Third Half (2012)
To the Hilt (2014)
Edin Jakubovic
Best movies:
The Border Post (2006)
Upside Down (2007)
Naci Saban
Best movies:
Upside Down (2007)
The Third Half (2012)
Bal-Can-Can (2005)