“A work that pushes the boundaries of genres to reach for new realms of cinematic experience, at once sensual and iconoclastic. This film defies all norms of production in order to speak with artistic freedom about a social freedom to come. We salute Željka Sukov・ and Gustavo Beck for having struggled together to create Winter I Miracle, a film whose exuberant geography and more exuberant cinematography should invigorate all of us in Jihlava as spectators and as artists.”

– IDFF Jihlava 2013 Between the Seas Jury; Dudley Andrew, Lordan Zafranović, Gwenaël Breës, Özge Calafato

 

 

“I like this job a lot, you know. I could easily do that, go from one city to another, and shoot some films with Željka. Now they want Željka with me here and there, and it’s so hard, you know. Let’s see what I have to do, aha, I have to sink myself into jacuzzi, I’m gonna ask 5 millions for that. And for lifting and driving in a helicopter in Copacabana, I’m gonna ask… I don’t’ even know how much I’m gonna ask for that. It’s so hard. Will the people know how much we suffered for that film? Yes they will, Croatia is in the recession. Will they know that we had to go here and there, to eat and drink a lot. And to walk a lot. And we never had the time to put a nail stick on. That was the hardest for me. When was it? When we had to swim in the ocean while the people in Rijeka had to watch the snow on Učka, on -2 degrees. That was really terrifying. And really, this film would be so much easier to deal with if you had shaved your legs. Yes of course, they are like men’s legs to me. They prick me. And this hair and the beard, isn’t it sexy? You look like a Smurf with that on your head. And where is that nose, put that nose on, now it’s marvelous, it’s a costume. No, it can’t go here. Will you puke in that water, so it could be like we’re bathing in a favela? It’s so hard for me, all of that. Screw it, why it is over, it’s so good.”

– Tajči Čekada