Dum spiro spero

Dum spiro spero

7.0

May 29 2017

1h 52m

Documentary

Well-known Croatian author Pero Kvesić, who has been struggling with a severe lung disease, documents his death from his own point of view. Recording his everyday struggle, the picture resembles a peculiar blog filled with self-irony and witty comments about life and death. Although the world around continues to shrink, the hero and the director in one does not cease to fill it with sense.

Pero Kvesić

Pero Kvesić

Himself

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