In 1974 communist authorities built the so-called ‘Memorial Home for WWII Resistance Fighters and Youth of Yugoslavia’ in Kumrovec, a tiny rural hometown of the legendary president Marshal Tito. In 1991, when Yugoslavia collapsed 11 years after Tito’s death and the Croatian War of Independence started, the Memorial Home was closed, and it remained closed until today. Several attempts to repurpose the building have failed. Still, some fighters remain...

Dir. Ivan Ramljak | 49min | 2018 | Croatia

"Ivan Ramljak’s atmospheric spatial study Home of the Resistance stares through the modernist architectural elegance to reveal, within its ruined walls, the spectres of the past" - Open City Doc Fest

"reveals unequivocally the identity of the place...A poised observation of architecture can indeed bring its share of political potentiality by calling for a nuanced look at history and a critical one at the present, for reassessing legacy and building on its foundations" - Senses of Cinema

"Looking to capture the spirit of a place, Ramljak ends up filming a structure conceived as a totality: accommodation, sports, leisure, community. The building, an open space, resists him. Like an inverse gestalt, there are no postcard views here, and the architecture seems all the more alive as a result: an all-weather, multi-purpose monument reactivated by the filmmaker’s lens." - Sight & Sound

"The clinical precision of the framing, which espouses the architectural elegance, deepens the mystery and helps to confer a sort of Shining effect on the policy of the living-dead, between these walls" - Cinema du Reel