The film “Guardians of the Formula”, directed by Dragan Bjeloglić, completely fascinated the local professional public, as well as the large audience. After two crowded screenings, the film “Guardians of the Formula” received the recognition of the audience, just like the highest number of votes awarded by film critics and journalists who have been following this festival for years.
After more than 10 years in which not a single domestic film was included in this prestigious festival, Bjela’s “Watchmen” continued a series of international successes in Asia. From the world premiere in Locarno, where he returned with as many as two awards, through Sarajevo, Skopje, and all the way to Palm Springs, this unique story about the nuclear accident in Vinci from 1958, left no one indifferent.
At the same time, more than 300,000 viewers in Serbia made Bjeloglić’s film the most watched film in 2023.
This movie story written by Vuk Ršumović along with Ognjen Sviličić and Dragan Bjelogrić is based on the novel “The Case of Vinča” by professor Goran Milašinović. The author’s team, led by Bjelogrlić as director, consists of director of photography Ivan Kostić, editor Milena Predić, set designers Jelena Sopić and Jovana Cvetković, costume designer Marina Vukasović Medenica, composer Aleksandar Ranđelović, while executive production is signed by Goran Bjelogrlić.
The cast consists of Radivoj Raša Bukvić, as well as the famous French actors Alexis Manenti, Olivier Barthelemy and Anne Sarah. The director of the Vinča institute, Pavel Savić, is played by Predrag Miki Manojlović, and the head of state security of the SFRY, Leka Ranković, is played by Dragan Bjelogrlić. The director assigned the roles of young Yugoslav scientists to Jovan Jovanović, Alisa Radaković and Ognjen Mićović.
Behind this original project are the production companies CobraFilm and United Media, with the support of Euroimages, Creative Europe Media, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, as well as the Film Centers of Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia and North Macedonia, and cinema distribution is entrusted to the company Art Vista.
BONUS VIDEO: I wanted to give up on the film, and now it has achieved the most on the world market: Dragan Bjelogrlić on the screening of “The Formula Keeper” at the festival in Beijing
