Yugoslavia, My Fatherland
by Goran Vojnović
Jugoslavija, moja dežela, fiction, digital DCP, 1,85:1, 24, c
SI, MK, RS, HR, AT
In progress
Thirty-three-year-old Vladan Borojević, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts, lives a normal life with his girlfriend Nadja, until one evening he sees a soldier in a photograph who looks like his late father. He types his father’s name into an internet search engine and suddenly everything changes for Vladan. For almost twenty years Vladan was convinced that his father, a newspaperman for the Yugoslav People’s Army, had died in the war, but it turns out that he is alive. What’s more, General Nedeljko Borojević is accused of war crimes and has been hiding from the international court in The Hague for years. Vladan lived in Pula as a child, but at the outbreak of the war, the family …
Goran Vojnović has been directing films and writing screenplays for almost twenty years now. So far he has directed three feature films, a feature documentary and several short films. Besides his successful film career, he is mostly recognized for his writing, especially after his first novel Čefurji raus! became a regional bestseller and won him many awards. He has written four novels which are translated into more than twenty languages, while some of them have also been successfully adapted f…
War crimes committed by our fathers do not become obsolete, they do not disintegrate along with the countries and they do not fade away with the ideas in the name of which they were committed. War crimes are not forgotten along with the names of war criminals and their victims, when societies discover the magic of forgetting, war crimes do not die along with the victims, their relatives and descendants. War crimes fill the air, flow into rivers and soak into the soil, until they finally enter o…
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