Bosanski Lonac

The time has come. Faruk Šego's residence permit will not be renewed after twelve years. The application came nine days too late, reason enough for deportation. The former professor and poet from Sarajevo no longer understands the world - how is he supposed to prove that he is "valuable" for Austria, having just been rationalised out of radio? A small off-theatre might offer a stage to save him. But dramas are also played out here ... flight from the war and the related "generational change", the loss of a life as one knew and loved it and the painful memory of it, the seemingly never-ending struggle for genuine recognition - even among fellow countrymen: These are not easy topics to mix in this very fine "jugo" Styrian potboiler. Prepared with a lot of heart and soul.