An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker 2013 123movies

Watch: Epizoda u životu berača željeza 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – A Roma family lives far from the urban centres of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The father Nazif salvages metal from old cars and sells it to a scrap-dealer. The mother Senada keeps the house tidy, cooks, bakes and cares for their two small daughters. One day, she feels a sharp pain in her abdomen. At the hospital she is told there is something wrong with the baby she is carrying: “They say it’s dead.” She is at risk of septicaemia and they must operate immediately. But Senada has no medical insurance; since the operation will cost much more than the family can afford the hospital’s head refuses to treat her. A race against time together with a mounting sense of hopelessness played by a cast of non-professional actors re-enacting an episode from their own lives. Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix and the Silver Bear for best actor at the Berlin Film Festival 2013..
Plot: Senada is 31 and she lives in Poljice neighborhood in Lukavac municipality with her partner and two daughters. She is pregnant with her third child for approximately five months. Since she didn’t have health insurance, she does not go to the doctor’s. When she started bleeding, she goes to the hospital. The doctor told Senada that she needs an emergency surgery and she needs to pay 500 EUR. Without a health insurance card and without money, Senada returns home.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 1,297
	94% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 14 Popularity: 1.337 | TMDB

Reviews:

Picking Iron and other things
It could also have been “An incident in the life of …”. The movie that plays as if it was a documentary (the story does not seem too far stretched) and the people who most likely are not actors in this do a more than proper job. I defy anyone not being touched by the events unfolding in this movie.

Of course some might also say that this shows how far apart we are from each other. Simple things like this would not have broken a sweat in another country, but it is a real tough break for the characters here. Should you start re-thinking what you feel about your life then? It might work for a second, but we mostly fall back to old patterns until we actually are shaken ourselves that is.

So while the story and the idea in general is really good, actors would have actually made a difference. A proper script too. The shooting style fits the no budget/money category this plays in. For a couple things did really annoy me and drew part of my sympathy from the people portrayed in the movie. The situation and the fact, that people have to go through those circumstances is despicable. And it’s good that a movie made people aware. But I’m rating the movie, not the impact or the real story behind it

A sad state of affairs
But this only refers to the contents of the movie, not its quality. Danis Tanovic won the Oscar for Best Foreign Langue Film 2001 for “No Man’s Land”, about Amélie for example, back when he was just in his early 30s and here, over 10 years later he displays “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker”. Don’t worry though. It’s not 75 monotonous minutes of a man collection garbage. Actually there’s only two scenes, one on his own, one with his colleagues and they’re both pretty good in terms of atmosphere and context. The story is set in Bosnia, during wintertime and we see a family (husband, wife, two daughters) who doesn’t have much, but is still relatively happy with their life.

Things take a turn for the worse when the mother has a miscarriage and, as she has no insurance, we witness for a long time, how they desperately try to get doctors to remove the dead child while her health constantly deteriorates. The scenes where the father is begging to the nurses and doctors is particularly heartbreaking. He even offers interest payment which would take him months to get the money together if they could operate his wife immediately, but they refuse as the head physician refuses. So they’re definitely not trying to cheat, they just want to save the mother’s life. At one point, it’s mentioned how the father fought in the war, but has received to securities or anything afterward and that’s how he ended up collection iron in order to make a living. Finally, with some kind of insurance fraud, they still get to save the woman’s life. Thankfully the people in Bosnia stick together support each other in order to have access to the most basic things that are pretty much taken for granted in my country Germany, for example. It’s so strange to see health insurance by the government non-existent in other countries and it is really shocking. The film has many moving scenes, like when he and the two girls wait outside for their mother, or how he cries that God always punishes the poor ones.

When they come back home and the mother had her operation, the next troubles arise already (yep torture porn alert) as it’s winter, snow everywhere and the electricians where there and pulled off electricity as they didn’t pay for it for a while. When it’s switched back on shortly after and the mother says something like it’s back on and we see the girls smiling because they wouldn’t have to freeze anymore and can watch their cartoons again in their TV with terrible quality. Very touching scene and it really made me think how simple things and pleasures can make such a difference in many regions of the world. It’s something we, in the richer countries, tend to forget more and more unfortunately in the age of kitsch and waste.

All in all, it’s a film I recommend very much. It’s almost a documentary (the daughters are really the lead actor’s daughters judging from the name) and everybody did a fine job given they’ve never acted in a film before. It felt so real. I’m not 100% sure, but I think it wasn’t, judging from how nobody ever looked into the camera, the kids or the doctors, nurses etc. for example. This film was selected as submission to the Oscars, but I don’t think it will appeal to the Academy as much as Tanovic’s previous work and as much as it did to me. Also, I’ve seen a couple other very good foreign films already that were submitted (Chile, Germany, Saudi-Arabia, Denmark), so competition seems stiff this year and I’d be quite surprised if it gets nominated. It’s a very intriguing study of society though and I recommend it a lot.

Other Information:

Original Language bs
Runtime 1 hr 15 min (75 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama
Director Danis Tanovic
Writer Danis Tanovic
Actors Nazif Mujic, Senada Alimanovic, Semsa Mujic
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia, Italy
Awards 5 wins & 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process Digital (HD)
Printed Film Format DCP