Slovenia,
1989, 81 min, 16 mm
written and directed by: Zelimir Zilnik
camera: Andrej Lupinc
sound: Marko Tajic
edited by: Sonja Peklenk
set design and costumes: Masa Zilnik
production: TV Ljubljana
cast: Boris Nin, Rahela Macic, Andrej Rozman, Snezana Niksic, Zoran
More, Judita Zidar, Dejan Prasicek
The aged rocker Igor works as a journalist and DJ at the "Radio
[tudent" in Ljubljana. He notices that the janitor Miha works for the
police, tapping the walls and observing the journalists who are critical
of the regime.
After a clash with his editor, Igor decides to leave for
Greece by his old bike DKW from 1938, via Bosnia and Serbia. Rahela,
the girl who left Igor's son because of his snobbery, joins him on the
trip. Traveling through Yugoslavia, Igor becomes involved in unexpected
turmoil: in the Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa there is the scandal about
Fikret Abdic. At the same time, Milosevic's "antibureaucratic revolution" starts
in Serbia and Vojvodina.
There are popular gatherings supporting new
Milosevic's policy of "Serbian union" and "preservation of Yugoslavia." Igor
witnesses a few of these gatherings, seeing them as retrograde theatrical
performances with the stage design dating from the time immediately after
the Second World War. The stage design has nothing to do with "brotherhood
and unity" anymore, but rather with fragmentation of Yugoslavia into
national neo-feudal dwarf states. Seeing that this country will not allow
an ordinary life for decades, Igor finally sets off to Greece.
Film is the combination of fiction, in terms of a road-movie on the one hand,
and documentary shots from Autumn 1988, on the other. It blends the story of
rocker Igor, who is chased by a police officer all the way through Serbia
and the shots from the rallies dedicated to Milosevic's antibureaucratic policy.
festivals:
Mostra Internazionale, RIMINICINEMA, 1989


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