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Stara mašina

Country: Yugoslavia
Year: 1989
Duration: 81 min

Director: Zelimir Zilnik
Scenario: Zelimir Zilnik

Cast: Boris Nin (Marjan Ogrinc), Rahela Macic, Andrej Rozman, Snezana Niksic, Zoran More, Judita Zidar, Dejan Prasicek

Programme selection: Respect to Zelimir Zilnik

Synopsis:


The aged rocker Igor works as a journalist and DJ at the "Radio Študent" 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. Young Rahela joins him on the trip. Traveling through Yugoslavia, Igor becomes involved in unexpected turmoil: Milosevic's "antibureaucratic revolution" starts in Serbia and Vojvodina.

There are populistic 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.

Zelimir Zilnik (born 1942, based in Novi Sad, Serbia)

From the late 60s, his socially engaged films and documentaries in former Yugoslavia earned him critical accolades but also censorship in the 70s for his unflinching criticism of the government apparatus.

Low budget filmmaking and challenging political themes mark Zilnik’s prolific career that includes over 50 feature and documentary films and shorts.

www.zilnikzelimir.net



 

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