Pressure Point

Wimbledon is coming up. Our Bosnian-Dutch title favorite Viktor is rejected because of an impending Balkan war. While Viktor lives only for tennis, he unwittingly becomes a plaything of politics.

There is no sport in which the mental pressure can be as high as in tennis. The point system is designed so that the pressure keeps piling on, even when you are well ahead. Like the criticisms Novak Đoković often faces, Viktor is expected to conform to the expectations of the Western public and media.

Besides the cultural differences between his native country and the Netherlands, the endless traveling from tournament to tournament is beginning to take its toll and the tennis player no longer really feels at home anywhere. All his life he has trained to win Grand Slams, but no one has prepared him for the merciless services of the press, politics and public.

Top actor and tennis freak Vanja Rukavina creates with Viktor a dreamed alter ego, with which he comes face to face with the increasing pressure from two cultures.