White Button

Synopsis:

“Bjelo Dugme” (White Button) were the most famous rock and roll stars of the C20th in Eastern Europe. The leader of the band was Goran Bregovic - today a globally acclaimed composer of film scores and world music.

This documentary film delves into the effects Western popular culture had on a very particular communist country - this being the former Yugoslavia. Rock and Roll was accepted on a massive scale thanks to them. Their concerts gathered hundreds of thousands of fans from Belgrade to Moscow, their albums was released in the millions of copies, their bend members were the first to scandalize region with stories of drugs and decadence…

The fate of a “Bijelo Dugme”, it is unambiguously linked to the fate of former Yugoslavia.

“Bijelo Dugme” has created the 1974th, the year when the Yugoslav Constitution was adopted on the basis of which would later break up of Yugoslavia… and broke up in 1989th, less than a year prior to the final dissolution of the state.

This is an emotional and politically engaged documentary that is metaphorically linked the fate of a country and its biggest pop art symbols.

An epic story of sex, drugs, rock and roll and of course, the politics of the last 15 years of Yugoslavia.

Premiere of the movie was at a Sarajevo Film Festival, the most important film festival in the Balkans region.