- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Serbia
Matičević Mladen
Run for Life
Run for Life tells the story of three Ethiopian athletes who participated in the Podgorica half-marathon in November 2007 and afterwards decided to stay in Serbia and applied for political asylum. When Zoran Molović, a former Yugoslav athletic champion found out about their situation, he took them from the refugee camp, found them accommodation in the village of Pambukovica and became their coach. There the athlets train, wait for Serbian citizenship and hope that one day they will run for Serbia at world competitions. Should they return to Ethiopia, they would face poverty, war, and even jail. This is a film about their expectations, hopes, and about their struggle with the situation, sorrow for their families but also about whether Serbia is ready to accept them.
How To Become a Hero
Film director Mladen Matičević has just turned 40 and realized that he is not satisfied with his life. One day, as he is in the throes of a depression that he has been wrestling with for months, he catches the Rotterdam marathon live on TV. He comes to a decision to change his life. Despite his age and his weight of 118 kilos, he starts training with the idea to run the 2006 Belgrade marathon in its entirety – 42 kilometres.
Run for Life tells the story of three Ethiopian athletes who participated in the Podgorica half-marathon in November 2007 and afterwards decided to stay in Serbia and applied for political asylum. When Zoran Molović, a former Yugoslav athletic champion found out about their situation, he took them from the refugee camp, found them accommodation in the village of Pambukovica and became their coach. There the athlets train, wait for Serbian citizenship and hope that one day they will run for Serbia at world competitions. Should they return to Ethiopia, they would face poverty, war, and even jail. This is a film about their expectations, hopes, and about their struggle with the situation, sorrow for their families but also about whether Serbia is ready to accept them.
How To Become a Hero
Film director Mladen Matičević has just turned 40 and realized that he is not satisfied with his life. One day, as he is in the throes of a depression that he has been wrestling with for months, he catches the Rotterdam marathon live on TV. He comes to a decision to change his life. Despite his age and his weight of 118 kilos, he starts training with the idea to run the 2006 Belgrade marathon in its entirety – 42 kilometres.
Born April 26, 1965 in Beograd, Serbia. Graduated from Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Beograd (Department for Film and TV directing). 1985 - 1990 worked as a second and first assistant director on several Serbian and international feature films. 1985 - 1990 worked for Belgrade television as a director of short fiction and documentary films. From 1990 until today has directed 23 short and feature documentaries. Ghetto - Secret Life of the City (1996, 72 min. produced by B92) attended many film festivals worldwide. 2000 - directed the feature fiction film 1 ON 1 (2002 Best Serbian Feature). 2006 - produced and directed the documentary film How to Become a Hero for his own production house Starhill (IDFA 2007). 2007/2008 – wrote, produced and directed Together (feature). Producer and director of Run for Life.
Starhill d.o.o.
Golsvortijeva 12
Belgrade
Golsvortijeva 12
Belgrade
film “How to become a hero”
Bucharest - award for best documentary of the festival, Perm (.FIPRESCI award), and Bjelovar (audience award).