Serbia
2010/digital cinema/100mins
SATURDAY 5 November 6.15 PM – BUY!
The fascinating and little known story of how President Tito put celluloid to work to define the newly established nation of Yugoslavia.
Every night for 32 years President Tito, enigmatic leader of Yugoslavia, watched a movie before going to bed. He loved westerns and believed film would help him form and define the new nation that the Yugoslav Partisans created after World War II. Little known to anyone outside the country was just how important the movies were to Tito, and he built some of the finest film studios in the world and seduced many of Hollywood’s leading actors and directors to come to Belgrade. Anthony Hopkins, Kirk Douglas, Sophia Loren, Burton & Taylor, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles all made it down the red-carpet of communist movie-buff Tito, and filmmaker Mila Turajlic interviews many of the old hands from the era, telling tales of opulence and wonder.
Screenings at Tribeca, San Francisco, and Krakow International Film festivals
“Enlivened with a bright, bubbly spirit the film is a nostalgic love letter to, and chronicle of, a country that only existed on film.” Ben Umstead, Twitchfilm
“fascinating and absorbing…a must for film fans” Mark Adams, ScreenDaily
“we’re treated to the inside scoop on the golden age of the Yugoslavian film industry, one that coincided with President Tito’s ironhanded reign” Lauren Wissot, Slant Magazine
Director Mila Turajlic Producers Iva Plemic, Mila Turajlic Print Source Iva Plemic
