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Director Srdjan Golubovic at FEST 2007 The Trap (Klopka)Directed by Srdjan Golubovic, 2007 By Rada Djurica The Trap, adapted from a stage drama by Nenad Teofilovic, is a Serbian-German-Hungarian co-production. It is a film about how an ordinary man becomes a killer to save the life of his child. The psychologically dense story is true to post-Milosevic Serbia. Young Serbian director Srdan Golubovic aims at social drama, but the genre-busting film also borrows from the psychological thriller, becoming more engrossing in the second half. Underpaid engineer Mladen (Nebojsa Glogovac) and his wife Marija (Natasa
Ninkovic) are a young middle-class couple living with their 10-year-old
son in Belgrade. Their son is diagnosed with a life-threatening condition,
and he needs immediate surgery abroad. Serbia's now divided between the rich and the poor, and Mladen (Nebojsa Glogovac) is an engineer stuck in a low-paying job that barely supports his family. Already walking on thin ice, Mladen and Marija break down. They find a solution to their desperate situation from Milos (Miki Manojlovic), a sinister, smooth operator who wants to pay the couple, but only if Mladen kills a man. At first, Mladen's conscience causes him to refuse the offer, but as his son's health gets to be worse, he begins to reconsider. Actors Glogovac and Ninkovic are fantastic. Manojlovic is also fascinating in his role. This movie doesn't just paint a social portrait; it deals with redemption and with the choice between human or moral issues.
Actor Nebojsa Glogovac at FEST 2007
Belgrade International Film Festival
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