Rooster's Breakfast () is a Slovenian drama film released in 2007. An adaptation of the 1999 novel of the same name by Feri Lainà ¡ÃÂek, it became a box-office hit and won several awards.
The film takes place in the Mura Valley, in the vicinity of Gornja Radgona. David Slavinec, nicknamed ÃÂuro, has recently been laid off from his job. However, his former boss points him to a new job at the automechanic shop owned by his acquaintance Pià ¡ti Gajaà ¡, which he gladly accepts. Gajaà ¡ is an experienced, but somewhat naive local car mechanic who frequently talks about the past times when, in his opinion, life was much better for the ordinary people. His friends frequently visit him to play cards and discuss the events happening around them.
Cveto Vuksanovià- Lepec, the town's biggest thug and the owner of the local night club, frequently visits Gajaà ¡ to repair his Mercedes. Gajaà ¡ always repairs the car for him although Lepec always finds an excuse not to pay the bill immediately, preferring payments in various small favors to Gajaà ¡ and his friends. One day, ÃÂuro meets Bronja, the wife of Lepec, who brings in her car for repair. On another occasion, she asks ÃÂuro to drive her to Austria to get some pills for her friend. They soon start meeting each other. Later she tells ÃÂuro that she and her husband have become estranged after the birth of their daughter and the pills were meant to cure her severe nervous breakdown. ÃÂuro and Bronja start a passionate affair, which Gajaà ¡ discovers, but keeps hidden from Lepec, who nevertheless becomes suspicious when he finds a lighter that ÃÂuro forgot in their bedroom.
In the meantime, Gajaà ¡ dreams about Severina, a well-known Croatian pop star, who is on tour in the town. When Lepec drives his car in for a repair again, Gajaà ¡ demands he pays the debts from the past. This time Lepec pays him some money and promises he will bring Severina to his place to have dinner with him. Later that evening, Severina joins Gajaà ¡ for dinner.
The next morning Gajaà ¡ joyfully tells ÃÂuro that he had "rooster's breakfast" (i.e. morning sex) with Severina, but ÃÂuro tells him that the girl he slept with wasn't the real Severina, but a lookalike prostitute. Soon Lepec appears and spots a necklace given to ÃÂuro by Bronja, thus discovering their affair. After a quarrel with Lepec, Gajaà ¡ pulls out a gun and shoots Lepec before he can strike ÃÂuro. Some time later, ÃÂuro visits Gajaà ¡ in prison who orders him to take over his workshop and maintain it in such order as he did. He then settles there with Bronja and her daughter.
Rooster's Breakfast is an adaptation of the 1999 novel of the same name by Feri Lainà ¡ÃÂek.
The film was critically acclaimed and a box-office hit in Slovenia, becoming the third most successful movie in Slovenia, following Titanic and Troy, at the time.
The film won five awards at the 10th Festival of Slovenian Film. It was also the Slovenian candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film nomination in 2009 (81st Academy Awards), but was not nominated.