Ivan Živković

« Une réédition d’un bon vieux film, arrangé, embelli et commenté par Dušan Makavejev » dixit le générique. Les images du premier film parlant yougoslave – film autobiographique réalisé en 1942 sous l’occupation – se télescopent, 36 ans plus tard, avec les propos de Dragoljub Aleksić, personnage truculent, serrurier, acrobate et réalisateur de ce film longtemps perdu, d’une partie de son équipe et des images d’actualité.

In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Belgrade, locksmith and acrobat Dragoljub Aleksić wrote, produced, directed and starred in Nevinost bez zaštite, the first sound feature film made in Serbia. It is a thrilling action picture with musical numbers and prolonged sequences of Aleksić's acrobatic stunts. Nevinost bez zaštite was never released due to the Nazi censors. "Gentlemen, I assure you the entire Yugoslavian cinema came out of my navel. In fact, I have made certain inquiries, and I am in a position to state positively that the entire Bulgarian cinema came out of my navel as well."

A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.

An updated version of a legendary Yugoslavian 1970s sitcom “Theater at Home”.