This Is a Robbery!
by Gregor Andolšek
To je rop!, 2024, fiction, digital DCP, 2,00:1, 24, c, 82 min
SI
Finished
Rajko is a professional magician who broke his arm during one of his shows. But his insurance company Tangenta is unwilling to pay him the insurance benefits due to a bureaucratic error. Outraged by the injustice, he is defended only by the kind-hearted insurance agent Marcel who tries to help by getting Rajko in the room with the Tangenta’s CEO himself. But the meeting goes sour as Marcel impulsively kidnaps the CEO, much to Rajko’s surprise, and together they soon find themselves on the run.
Slovenian director and screenwriter Gregor Andolšek (1979) holds a graduate degree in Film Directing from the International Film School of Paris, EICAR. His filmography consists of numerous no-to-low-budget shorts including The Tunnel (2017), Toilet Stories (2014, with T. Zinajić), and Entre Potes (2008, with I. Tobalina). This Is a Robbery! is his debut fiction feature.
I wanted to make a film that starts at the point where one usually gives up, when they are discarded, dumped and outplayed by a system. What would happen if they didn't just surrender?
Temporama has been working with the new generation of up-and-coming Slovenian film-makers since 2013. They’ve produced a number of short and experimental films, music videos, and webseries before transitioning to feature films with “Consequences” (Toronto IFF 2018). Their recent credits include the documentary film “Alpe-Adria Underground!” (DokuFest Prizren 2024) and “Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song” (Torino FF 2025), with several other titles currently in pr…