AWAKENING OF THE PALETTE



Director: Vefik Hadžismajlović

Screenwriter: Vefik Hadžismajlović

Cinematografpher: Mihajlo Murko

Music: Blanka Jelić

Editor: Blanka Jelić

Production:

Visual Art Studio, Sarajevo

Synopsis:

This film is a story of beginning of modern art/painting in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the middle of 19th century, first there were foreigners who came to Bosnia, and than, after the Austro-Hungarian occupation appear the first Bosnian painters. They go to the European academies. They return to Bosnia and paint, introducing art and new ideas of contemporary European art into BH art. The film ends with the First world war. It is the first part of trilogy, but due to the war circumstancesother two parts were never shot.