MERCY OF THE SEA

Ana Lukovic has lost everything - her husband, her parents, her brother - all killed in the war in the Balkans in 1991.But the worst loss af all, the one that haunts her every moment, is the loss of her only child, a nine year old son named Ante.That was two years earlier.

Ana has never been able to find her precious son since that day. Now residing in Rijeka on the coast of Croatia, Ana, a former teacher with a masters degree, is content to live out a miserable and self - punish - ing existence, working in a slaughterhouse at night and sleeping away the days in a dismal one-room apartment. Her only friend, who gives her a apark of hope, is her mailman, Ivan Miletich. Ivan has been in love with Ana since they went to school together. It was Ivan who introduced her to his best friend, Marko, the man she would eventually marry.
   


Sunset: Island Praj
(Croatia)


Director of Photo-
graphy: Igor Sunara


Martin Sheen

 

Then one day Ivan brings her a letter from her uncle bearing wonderful news: He has found Ante! Delighted, she prepares to leave that morning for Lopud, the island near Dubrovnik, where her uncle lives, where Ante has turned up. What follows is Ana's dreamlike journey that day to the south of Croatia, where she meets, in different guises, all the people close to her, living and dead.

And when she does reach Lopud and meets her uncle, an eccentric hermit and painter, she indeed will be reunited with her son….but not in the way she expected.


MOVIE PRODUCTION:

Production: Blackstone Media Arts - Los Angeles, Capistrano Productions - Los Angeles, Orlando Film - Zagreb

Supervisor of the script: BARRY MORROW (Academy Award Winner for Best Screenplay in 1988 For "RAIN MAN")

Supervision of Production: RICHARD WEINER ( Consultant "ANY GIVEN SUNDAY")

ERIC HAMBURG ( Producer "JFK", "NIXON" ) and Various people involved with IXTLAN productions ( Owned and under control by OLIVER STONE )


   
Location: Island Praj
(Croatia)


AME visited the shooting on the island Praj		  


Igor Sunara



Directory: Jakov &
Dominik Sedlar,
Renee Estevez, Martin
Sheen