Mirage (2004 film)

Mirage Macedonian transliterated Iluzija is a 2004 Macedonian drama film starring Vlado Jovanovski, Mustafa Nadarevi, Nikola uriko, and Dejan Aimovi, with Marko Kovaevi debuting in its lead role. It was directed by Svetozar Ristovski, who cowrote the film with Grace Lea Troje. Taking place in the city of Veles, the film is a comingofage story about a talented but abused schoolboy who is betrayed by illusory hopes of a better future and transformed by harsh circumstances into a criminal. It offers a grim depiction of postindependence Macedonia, portraying it as a site of violence and corruption.

The film takes place in Veles during the Republic of Macedonias postindependence years. It tells the story of 13yearold Marko Trifunovski Marko Kovacevic, a talented but abused Macedonian schoolboy whose harsh circumstances gradually transform him into a criminal. Two mentors offer Marko hopes of a better future, but they eventually fail him, leading to his catastrophic change. The illusory nature of these hopes is foreshadowed by the films epigraph, an aphorism from Friedrich Nietzsches Human, All Too Human Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.The film opens with Markos difficult circumstances. Living in a rundown house beside a railway track, he suffers neglect from his family. They consist of his father Lazo Vlado Jovanovski, a drunkard addicted to bingo and involved in a workers strike his cowed, unsupportive mother Angja Elena Mosevska and his promiscuous, abusive sister Fanny Slavica Manaskova. At school, Marko suffers torment from bullies led by Levi Martin Jovchevski, son of the Albanian police chief Blashko Dejan Acimovic. To escape his troubles, Marko often takes refuge in a local train graveyard, playing chess to pass time. ........

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