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The Other Side of Everything

Druga strana svega
Mila Turajlić
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia,
France,
Qatar
2017
104 minutes
Serbian
Subtitles: 
English

A door that has been closed for seventy years serves as a MacGuffin in Mila Turajlić’s double portrait of her mother and her mother country of Yugoslavia. That very door has divided the bourgeois family apartment ever since Tito’s communists assigned several rooms to proletarians in need of shelter. Srbijanka Turajlić never cared a fig for her neighbours. But when Serbian nationalists began to threaten the unity of her country, she turned into a fierce opponent of the Milošević regime. In a virtuoso montage of archive material and conversations with her mother, the filmmaker recaps the latter’s development while gaining a new perspective on the time of her own youth.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Mila Turajlić
Cinematographer
Mila Turajlić
Editor
Aleksandra Milovanovic, Sylvie Gadmer
Producer
Mila Turajlić, Carine Chichkowsky
Sound
Aleksandar Protić
Score
Jonathan Morali