Four days a week, starting at 9 pm, if we choose HRT 1, we are relentlessly exposed to an effective cocktail of crime, a political thriller, and horror. It's served under the label "Rest in Peace", which is a strong narcotic and leaves behind incurable addicts who want higher doses every day. One can hardly wish for more from television fiction.
Four days a week, starting at 9 pm, if we choose HRT 1, we are relentlessly exposed to an effective cocktail of crime, a political thriller, and horror. It's served under the label "Rest in Peace", which is a strong narcotic and leaves behind incurable addicts who want higher doses every day. One can hardly wish for more from television fiction.
We can pretend that we don't know where exactly this meta-genre bomb was created, so let's imagine that it is exclusively the fruit of imagination from some orderly civilized country. Production (Ring Production for HRT, producer Dario Vince, executive producer Miodrag Sila) concentrates on holding all the tools in their hands, giving the illusion that they were easily achieved in fabulous payment terms. In that name, great directing (Goran Dukić), writing (main screenwriter Saša Podgorelec, co-screenwriters Ivan Turković Krnjak and Dario Vince, who is also the creator of the series), and visual (camera Mario Sablić, scenography Ivan Veljača) talents are pushed into the game. Judita Franković, Anja Šovagović-Despot, and Nina Violić give exciting flesh to the wicked material, leading a phenomenal acting team (Goran Navojec, Dragan Despot, Jelena Miholjević, Boris Cavazza, Daria Lorenci-Flatz, Helena Minić-Matanić, Boris Svrtan, Bojan Navojec, Hrvoje Kečkeš, Goran Grgić, Luka Dragić...) in which there is simply no bad character.
But in addition to great meta-genre treats - quite enough to nail you to the screen - there’s also that engaged degree of a dedicated mission here. "Rest in Peace" in the second season further inflamed the fever of its relentless struggle for social justice. Every member of the creative team has an unadulterated childish faith in social responsibility. Not only is prime time being filled with quality TV, but something much more is being developed - the expulsion of demons from ethically, aesthetically, and economically disintegrated Croatia. And that’s why every character, director-led and brought to life by actor, is so damn convincingly written - because they all believe in the mission that the agony and destruction of this society must and can be stopped.
Mate Šušnjara (Dragan Despot), a seductive monster of everyday life, stoically accustomed to crime, is cynically precise: "The world is a cold and cruel place. It is constantly testing us." He's one of the creators of the generally accepted destruction that has nestled in the swampy foundations of Croatia like an immortal virus. And it corroded, humiliated every meaning of civilian life. Robbery, greed and gluttony, giant tails of squeezing the last lump of values (material and human), political arrogance and raw terror of will for power - all this is uncompromisingly driven to the purgatory by the creators of the series "Rest in Peace".
While the series airs, let's enjoy the juicy first-league fiction. Once it's gone, it is to be hoped that her onslaught for good and the fight against evil will bear lasting fruit. And be just a fond memory, because we will rest in a happier country. Preferably alive and well.