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Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
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Cinema Komunisto
Mila Turajlić
Mila Turajlić’s acclaimed film debut mines the rich film history of the Tito era, preserved in archives, to narrate the foundation and self-assertion myths of Yugoslavia.
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Cinema Komunisto

Cinema Komunisto
Mila Turajlić
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia
2010
101 minutes
Serbian
Subtitles: 
English

To the film enthusiast Marshall Tito, who had his own projection room and employed a full-time projectionist, cinema was also a means to consolidate socialist Yugoslavia. Filmmaker Mila Turajlić, on the other hand, raised in a state that was falling apart, draws on the wealth and glamour of Yugoslavian cinematography in her first long film to better understand her own history. In a clever montage of interviews and film clips, she tells stories of nation-building and images of a nation, but also of how the collapse of the film industry after Tito’s death heralded the collapse of her country.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Mila Turajlić
Cinematographer
Goran Kovacevic
Editor
Aleksandra Milovanovic
Producer
Dragan Pesikan
Sound
Aleksandar Protić
Score
Nemanja Morusovic
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
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Innocence Unprotected
Dušan Makavejev
The first Yugoslavian sound film from 1941: re-edited, supplemented and modified by Nazi newsreels and footage from 1968, ironically transformed from feature film to documentary.
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Innocence Unprotected

Nevinost bez zaštite
Dušan Makavejev
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Documentary Film
Yugoslavia
1968
75 minutes
Serbian,
German
Subtitles: 
English

The feature film “Innocence Unprotected” by Dragoljub Aleksić tells the story of a young woman who’s to be forcibly married to a horrible rich man while her true love is for a daring acrobat. This first Yugoslavian sound film was made in 1941 in occupied Belgrade and never released because of Nazi censorship. Dušan Makavejev’s deconstruction of this bizarre work, which he re-edited, partly hand-coloured, supplemented with German newsreels and current footage of former participants and thus turned into an eponymous documentary film in 1968, was awarded a Silver Bear at the Berlinale.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Dušan Makavejev
Script
Branko Perak, Dušan Makavejev
Cinematographer
Stevan Misković, Branko Perak
Editor
Ivanka Vukasović
Producer
Avala Film Library
Score
Vojislav Kostić
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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