Next to Me

Next to Me

95 mins | Drama, Comedy | July 20, 2015

Olja is a high school history teacher, married to a painter whose latest exhibition provoked violent reactions from Serbian nationalists. One night, a group of masked hooligans attacks her. They film the attack and upload the clip to YouTube. The next day Olja discovers that some of her students were responsible. She takes away their mobile phones, and in the heat of the moment decides to lock them in the school building, also disconnecting the school phones and the internet. In order to solve the problem together, and with inability to leave the school, students begin to communicate. During that night, a generation that was written off before they were ever given a chance will learn more than they ever expected about themselves and their classmates.

Next to Me

95 mins | Drama, Comedy | July 20, 2015

Next to Me
Olja is a high school history teacher, married to a painter whose latest exhibition provoked violent reactions from Serbian nationalists. One night, a group of masked hooligans attacks her. They film the attack and upload the clip to YouTube. The next day Olja discovers that some of her students were responsible. She takes away their mobile phones, and in the heat of the moment decides to lock them in the school building, also disconnecting the school phones and the internet. In order to solve the problem together, and with inability to leave the school, students begin to communicate. During that night, a generation that was written off before they were ever given a chance will learn more than they ever expected about themselves and their classmates.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Hypnopolis
Original title Поред мене
Directors Stevan Filipović
Writers Minja Bogavac, Stevan Filipović

Cast

Hristina Popović

as Profesorka istorije Olja

Mirjana Karanović

as Direktorka škole

Dragan Mićanović

as Uglješa

Slaven Došlo

as Lazar

Nikola Glišić

as Strahinja

Gorica Regodić

as Isidora

Milica Majkić

as Jelena

Darko Ivić

as Tadija

Jelena Puzić

as Sofija

Andrej Pipović

as Matija

Katarina Pešić

as Bojana

Anđelko Beroš

as Dobrica

Uroš Novović

as Dušan

Alek Surtov

as Pavle

Rastko Vujisić

as Raša

Jelena Kesić

as Ana

Vibor Kreković

as Damir

Jelena Bogavac

as Oljina prijateljica

Predrag Grujić

as Dekster

Joana Knežević

as Sanja

Petar Kokinović

as Petar

Radoslav 'Rale' Milenković

as Glas kustosa

Mina Nikolić

as Ksendža

Marija Pantin

as Iva

Una Senić

as Glas voditeljke

Olivera Viktorović

as Sekretarica škole