Inferno

Vinko Möderndorfer : 2014

Struggling for a better life in a world defined by economic crisis and lack of morality, the world today can be seen as an inferno: an unjust hell where those who are unlucky are simply unable to find the way out of their misery. By no means an abstract meditation on hell and evil, the film addresses concrete social and political situations in which the world has found itself because of the global capitalist monstrosity. The story focuses on a young unemployed working-class family and their everyday struggle for survival. The family is like any ordinary European family, trying to make a living with the work of their hands. Their life as a result of the global economic crisis finds itself at an impasse. It seems that there is no escape. That individuals cannot fight against injustice, against misery, against the unseen authority of the system. However, cobblestones torn from the city streets are waiting, and have done so for centuries. Inferno exists. But only temporarily. Vinko Möderndorfer's third feature premiered at Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož 2014.