RS

2014

36 min

Finished

Belgrade - Life or Death

Beograd - život ili smrt

Directing: Bojana S. Knežević

Synopsis

The film follows a famous model and stylist Maja Atanasijević in her lonely, but intense struggle to bring back forgotten values of a city. Maja belongs to Belgrade generation that was maturing in nineties and pressed by hardship and despair, often tended to leave the country or broke into lethargy. Such "cleansed" old Belgrade, has become an open field for the transformation, where only the most aggressive individuals could succeed, building a completely new system of values, which imposed nationalism, traditionalism and darkness in every way. Twenty years later, the situation in society inevitably reminds of the "old days" - recycling the "old values", the public and political life dominantly marks lack of morals, kitsch and trash have become cultural offer and young people without hesitation leave the country again . It became clear that the fall of Milošević did not bring long-term change and that this "deja vu" is not an accident.