Dobrovoljci - Volunteers (1979) PDF Print E-mail
Yugoslavia, 1979, 30 min, 16 mm, color 
written and directed by: Zelimir Zilnik 
camera: Ljubomir Becejski 
edited by: Katarina Kislovska 

production: TV Novi Sad

In remote Vojvodinian villages Zilnik finds dozens of old men who are more then willing to tell stories about their adventures from the times of the First World War: marching thousands of kilometres from Siberia to Vojvodina, fighting with the Allies on the Salonika front - to free Serbia and create Yugoslavia. As a reward, the King gave them land and houses in Vojvodina, to settle. Later, in Tito’s Yugoslavia they were denied their rights, kept on social margins, as royalists. This documentary was one of the first opportunities for them to speak publicly about their life experience and troubles.

 
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