"TUSTA"
A musical documentary biography dedicated to Branko Črnac Tusta, the recently departed front-man of the legendary punk-rock band from Pula, Kud Idijoti.
Year of production: 2019.
Screening time: 109' / Color: color / Format: DCP Produced by: Factum In co-production with: Wake Up Films (Serbia), Award Film & Video (North Macedonia), Zagreb Film (Croatia) Screenwriter and director: Andrej Korovljev Producer: Nenad Puhovski Editor and co-writer: Vesna Biljan Pušić Cinematographer: Goran Legović Sound recordist: Ivan Šmintić Sound design: Dubravka Premar Colour grading and image post-production: Iva Kraljević Sound mix: Ivan Zelić Graphic design: Bruno Razum Co-producers: Biljana Tutorov (Wake Up), Vladimir Stojčevski i Goran Stojilković (Award Film & Video), Vinko Brešan (Zagreb Film) Associate producer: Tamara Babun Executive producer and assistant director: Neda Frank Production support: Lucija Parać |
Tusta made his first musical steps in the 1980s, when the band Kud Idijoti was established. What makes Tusta special and what definitely goes beyond the boundaries of music is his powerful and unrelenting antifascist orientation and the background of a sort of Balkan’s “working class hero”. This attitude was what made Tusta and Kud Idijoti the spokespeople of a series of generations growing up in the 1980s and 1990s. The very fact that Kud Idijoti were banned in the 1990s on most radio stations and branded as “traitors of their country” because of their punk-rock adaptation of the song Bandiera Rossa is quite telling about Tusta’s involvement and fight for tolerance, coexistence and social justice in the times when such values were a sign of “the communist stigma”. We saw no politicians at Tusta’s funeral, but we did see hundreds of people from all former Yugoslav republics who travelled thousands of kilometres to say goodbye to the musical “Che” of this region.
Festivals & Awards:
- Motovun film festival 2019. - World Premiere
- DokuFest 2019, Prizren
- Liburnia film festival 2019 - Audience Award
- Free Zone 2019, Belgrade
- Cinedays 2019, Skopje
- Festival of Documentary Rock Film - DORF 2020, Vinkovci, Croatia
- Dok'n'Ritam 2020, Belgrade