THE CONSTITUTION: A Film By Ohio University Eminent Scholar, Rajko GrliA?

Director: Rajko GrliA?

Writer(s): Ante TomicI?, Rajko GrliA?

Cast: NebojA!a Glogovac, Dejan AA?imoviA?, Ksenija MarinkovicI?

Awards: Winner of The Montreal World Film Festivala?Ts Grand Prize of the Americas

Language: Croatian

Running Time: 93 minutes

Back by popular demand, please join us for a special three-day run of Rajko GrliA?a?Ts THE CONSTITUTION. Following a sold out premiere in November, the Athena has brought back the film for a limited engagement. The film could not be more timely.

Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion.

Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses.

Director Rajko GrliA?, Ohio eminent scholar in film, was awarded The Montreal World Film Festivala?Ts prestigious Grand Prize of the Americas, the top award of the festival, for his feature film The Constitution (Ustav Republike Hrvatske) which he directed and co-wrote with Ante TomicI?.

-This immensely bold and brutally honest top-notch melodrama produced on a modest scale, which contains Grlica?Ts trademarks as dramatic conflict explored with intense emotional investment, seasoned with a refined sense of humor, skillfully deals with once again increasing intolerance in Croatia, yet its intelligent, deeply profound and insightful multilayered texture goes far beyond local, addressing an urgent global problem. Grlica?Ts polished and subtle directing evokes the best pieces of Douglas Sirk or Rainer Werner Fassbinder.- a?" FilmFestival.com