Newly divorced pathologist Fero returns to the Island of Rab, where he had spent most of his childhood alongside his father. Fero comes for the funeral of his friend's daughter, but soon, the chief of police, his friend Mungos, involves him in the murder investigation of a Romanian prostitute.
Acting
Grabarić's hangdog exhaustion is uncomfortably real
Cinematography
Rab Island looks beautiful and deeply sad
Direction
Kulenović lets silence do the screaming
Director
Goran Kulenović
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Croatian cinema has quietly been building a coastal noir tradition; this joins The High Sun and Murina in mapping Balkan trauma onto gorgeous locations.
The title references Andersen's fairy tale but inverts it — here the 'little match girl' dies not from cold but from exploitation, and no one is innocent enough to mourn her purely.
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