Summer in the shell was not convinced by critics, but created a star

With a digit -restored version of the movie Summer in a shell was in Linhart Hall of Cankarjev dom ten days ago It can be re -immersed in that famous first Tomaževa and Milen’s summer, due to the great interest of the audience, the opportunity is offered over the week or two, 11 and 17, and 17. For many cult film, which marked their youthful days and, with 116,000 viewers (according to Vibo film), he wrote down history as the most watched Slovenian film in 1986, he also received a lot of criticism at the time. For even more substantively vacated, reduced to dance and music, his continuation was indicated two years later.

“This is a movie of the Skrogat: everything he goes to get out of. (…) All situations and characters are fake. (…) The film indicates some cliché situations (children’s war between the seaside towns, hunting for thieves, erotic sympathy, mama -ada -sin ratio that reunites parents), but bursts as soap bubbles in the same gesture. The film is late shortly after they destroy a computer that actually represents a rugged ‘essence’ of this summer in a shell, « said film critic at the premiere of the movie April 1986 Zdenko Vrdlovec.

His resident colleague Stanka Godnič wrote that “our new Summer in a shell Something artificial, superficially composed, hopeful in the affection of young viewers.  » That the script contained a lot of stereotypes that young viewers like to respond to and offered too little opportunity for poetry to exceed action complications, said filmmaker and later Badjur’s winner Mirjana Borcic. She has been designated for functional costume design Irene Felician and scenery Mirka Lipužičdirector Tugo Štiglic However, according to her, he wanted to create a fun and liking film.

Filmmakers, director and screenwriter Tugo Štiglic, a coastal Vitan mal And the set designer Mirko Lupužič, in one of the interviews, found that most critics said that the movie was bad, but no one wrote what is wrong with him. Stiglic recalled that critics were also a movie The valley of peace and Happiness on a leash torn and later pulled back.

According to Malov, everyone was just controversial, but no one analyzed the film, but ten countries (movie Happiness on a leashfor which he wrote the script with Janet Kavčič, 24). He refused to compare with Happiness on a leashsaying that they may have a similar moment, but by chance. Lipužič believed that our critics were not artistically educated, but only literary, which they also rely on in the evaluation of films.

Director Tugo Štiglic (at 1985 recording) chose a boyfriend for Tomaž, which everyone will be able to later say, « Aha, this one! » Photo: Wikipedia/ Archive of the Slovenian Cinematheque

All intended for visual experience

Similar criticisms have followed by continuing Summer in shell II Two years after, when the story – this time from Ljubljana – returned to the audience. « The shell and the film situation in Slovenia prove that new films are made on old mistakes with even greater mistakes, » Miha Brun And he said that, unlike the extraordinary Slovenian youth literature in the film, which costs a « mountain of money », we are kept « with an abbot, empty stork, with a dramaturgy that is without a sense of reality, AZ great love for Hohstaplary in the new -established small -town circles, which are fed by Plečnik. »

The second film, which began filming in August 1987, was already announced by the authors as a movie full of music and dance, with five new songs by Jani Golob. Photo: Promotional material

Tadej Zupančič for the only good in a movie that shows a beautifully dressed youth without any trouble, labeled only a few dialogues Valentina (Zdravka) of the soul. Stanka Godnič estimated that the film that gives something to itself does not even need a narrative or a fabula, « everything is intended for his visual experience – the viewer should think of the stunt on his own or a little after watching. »

What is supposed to apply to Summer in Shell II. “They were lucky. Vitan Mal and Tugo Štiglic, as screenwriters, have made a good use of capital, which was invested in the first film by carefully selected adolescent actors, Kaja Štiglic and David Slug”She wrote. The axis of the movie is music.

Bernarda Rakovec (Jeklin) He « through the eyes of struggling amateurs » found that he lacked a firm story and that the main character is dance, in fact, a casino, and that « in general, one gets a person’s impression of a kind of denial, with which the creators did all but dance inputs. »

It was certainly at the forefront, the first part of the film was with him by Piran Square 1. In May, he made one of the most iconic places of the Slovenian coast in May, as well as film venues (for the design of the legendary comedy Our car was chosen in 1962 by Czech director František Chap). It should be remembered that this year the European Film Academy has included the list of treasures of European film culture.

Cassette issued in self -publishing

In the second part, which was filmed in the also iconic Prelovšek Villa with a signature Jože Plečnik in Ljubljanaaccording to the co -owner, the art historian Damjana Prelovšek Because Triglav’s film was home across the street, a real war was held for the dance.

Who would have thought the movie would announce my journey abroad, later said Kaja Štiglic, who starred in the role of Milena. Photo: Promotional material

The story was strongly reminiscent of the problems of the then Ljubljana Dance Club with the neighboring Institute of the History of the Labor Movement. Otherwise, the second film, which began filming in August 1987, was already announced by the authors as a movie full of music and dance, with five new songs Jani Golobthe same music author as he was celebrated in the first part.

But as the old newspapers stated, they released the first four -song cassette and stage music from the film by the Black and White ensemble, and was in sale at the Mladinska knjiga, as Viba did not find a common language with the RTV Ljubljana tapes and records.

The computer knows, another indispensable protagonist of the first part, was in fact the Triglav computer, the Iskra Delta product. Because the filmmakers were given an emotional, not educational role, the graphics were emphasized, they explained. His voice lent his father’s father Dare Valic. His film wife or Tomaž’s mother Marjana Karner She was like David Sluga’s debutant in Slovenian film, but otherwise an amateur actress.

Yeah, this one is!

What about the main character and hero? They organized a lot of auditions in schools, in clubs, and players were chosen slowly and carefully. As usual, they evaluated how boys behave in front of the camera, what mimicry they have, what are the characteristics of their game.

“For Tomaž, I chose a boy that everyone can say about later: Yeah, this one! Maybe this time I decided on a character that is not exactly typical of Slovenian and Yugoslav children’s film. I didn’t look for a classic boy’s beauty. David is an interesting, dry boy, very lively and is also a dancer, « said Štiglic in an interview with Work while shooting the first film, August 1985. But Vitan Mal, with which they had already collaborated on the movie Happiness on a leashhe imagined in the book a completely different person and could not agree with the director’s choice, he admitted.

The first part of the film was made by Dance by Piran Square 1. In May, for one of the most iconic places of the Slovenian coast, as well as film venues. This year, the European Film Academy listed it on the list of treasures of European film culture. Photo: Promotional material

As David Sluga recalled almost two decades ago, he and the director’s daughter Kaja Štiglic met before filming their first film, on a vacation in Premantura. « And when I was chosen as a lead role, with a statement that I was most likely a sympathetic to Kaja’s mother, I raised quite a few allegations at the expense of alleged arbitrariness and nepotism. »

Even before that, Kaja and I made a commercial for Fructal, after the movie in another tooth cream, and because of the dance skills, he was also seen in two adhesive commercials. Great dancer Breakdancea and Electric Boogie, who also competed in the World Cups, had many fans because of film fame.

« It also came after fifteen letters a day, on the street I was recognized and gossiped by at least the entire high school, in the disco tourist, where I often went, threatened me, I also got them on my nose, » he said. The threats were similar to the phone that began to ring as soon as they turned on. « Let me leave their girls alone and the like, I was constantly listening, » he said with a thirty -year delay.

First love, first kiss

Kaja Štiglic was certainly a child’s love, she admitted if it was mutual, it should be asked Kaja, with whom they were friends even after the recording, he added, since she went abroad, but they have not kept in touch. In an interview for Stop In 2004, she said, among other things, that she first arrived in the US in 1990 with a summer scholarship from the Chicago Dance School and later returned, performing in shows and fashion shows as a choreographer, assistant and producer. As she said, despite the fact that she was the director’s daughter, she had to have, like thousands of other candidates, through auditions.

She admitted that she was one of the most besieged girls at the end of elementary school at the end of elementary school and in the Poljanska gymnasium, and the romantic scene on the salt pans in the first movie was her first kiss. “At the time, I was not aware that the whole team with the director (dad!) Was evaluated by every one of our movements! Yes, David was definitely my first love! I couldn’t resist his blue curls and colorful espadrilles. « 

But David Sluga, who in the 90s, for example, recorded a song I will be the president (He wrote it for him Miha Guštin – Gušti), he also revealed in the same conversation that he was in fact very different from Tomaž. “I was more wild. He was a gentle boy, which I was in the image, but not in the interior. ”It is certainly for many of his former fans now, even now that he is a well -known lawyer, he is still Tomaž at least a little. After all, after two (unsuccessful) attempts at AGRFT, did he decide to do law.