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By Sara STIJOVIC

LES CINEMAS DU MONDE - LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS - as PROMO

First film - Development 2020

Gina is the story of Gina Markuš – a young Montenegrin woman who was imprisoned during the 1950's in Yugoslavia and sent to the Naked Island (Goli Otok) to serve her sentence. A few years before committing suicide, she put everything on paper...

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- First film, Documentary
- Countries
- MONTENEGRO
- Director(s)
- Sara STIJOVIC
- Producer(s)
- Branimir ZUGIC (LIVE Production)
- Synopsis
- The story follows Marina, Gina Markuš's niece, on her way to the Naked Island she is visiting for the second time – the first time as a baby seen in a photograph and now as a grown up woman. Marina and Gina are telling us the first female story of the Yugoslavian camps – a story about love that gave them the will to live; a story about trauma, pills and psychiatric hospitals, homicides and a suicide; and, ultimately, about hope.