Srdan Golubovic – Klopka aka The Trap (2007)

Mladen, an ordinary man, signs a pact with the devil in order to pay for the life-saving operation for his son and becomes a murderer. But the act soon starts to haunt him: keeping the secret from his wife forces him into a kind of emotional poker, and his conscience does not cooperate very long in his betrayal of his own moral standards. A “Balkan version of Crime and Punishment”, wrote director Srdan Golubović, set against the backdrop of a transition process gone awry: “a modern ‘film noir’ about post-Milosevic Serbia, where there is no more war, just a moral and existential desert.” Golubović vividly dissects personality transformations from the perspective of a confession, always showing great respect for his protagonists. With its distinctive language of images, which finds a style of its own between close-ups and the representation of urban architecture, the film reveals an artistic approach to the theme that points beyond empty metaphors to the personal quality of the story — a story whose pull can’t be resisted.
(Berlinale Catalogue)

The Trap is a film about an ordinary man forced to make a life-or-death decision about his own child. It tells the story of the protagonist’s moral dilemma: whether to save the life of his son by agreeing to kill someone else. It is about the moment that brings salvation to his own family, and suffering to another. It is about freedom of choice, which doesn’t really exist. The Trap is a very personal film, and in a way, the contemporary Balkan version of Crime and Punishment. It is about a crime that saves the life of the protagonist’s child, and the punishment that comes from within. It is about a man faced with two solutions – each leading to pain, guilt and misfortune. It is about a man in a moral and existential trap.
(Srdan Golubović)

Director: Srdan Golubovic
Writers: Melina Pota Koljevic, Srdjan Koljevic, Nenad Teofilovic,
Cast: Nebojsa Glogovac, Natasa Ninkovic, Anica Dobra
Producer: Jelena Mitrović, László Kántor, Jörg Rothe, Alexander Ris, Nataša Ninković
Cinematography: Aleksandar Ilić
Music: Mario Schneider
Production Company: Mediopolis Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Film House Baš Čelik, Új Budapest Filmstudió
Country: Serbia
Language: Serbian
Runtime: 1h 46mn

Srdan Golubovic - (2007) Klopka.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 42mn
Size: 	1.78 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	718x466 ~> 862x466
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 287 Kbps
BPP: 	0.285
Audio
#1:  	Serbian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/1938FFDC6A74CD6/Srdan_Golubovic_-_(2007)_Klopka.mkv

Language(s):Serbian
Subtitles:English