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Cinema Komunisto

World Documentary Competition

North American Premiere

Serbia | 101 MINUTES | Serbian |

CINEMA KOMUNISTO

Female Director(s), Documentary

For 32 years, Leka Konstantinovic was the personal film projectionist for Yugoslavian President and noted film enthusiast Josip Broz Tito. Tito's cinephilia is legendary, and includes such startling but charming anecdotes as his order to blow up a functioning bridge to achieve a more accurate shot for a film, or hiring out the entire nation's navy to serve as movie extras as part of their compulsory military service. But Marshal Tito's efforts were not mere caprice, rather part of a concerted effort to imbue the new postwar state of Yugoslavia with a mythic history and national image through the magic of the movies.

Comprised of interviews with Konstantinovic and other important figures in the brief but glowing history of Yugoslavian cinema, Cinema Komunisto examines the intersections and contradictions of image and reality in the process of 20th-century nation-building, while also satisfying cinephiles with a wealth of gorgeous archival footage from more than 60 classic films. Yugoslavian film production collapsed after Tito's death, along with the country itself, but both are briefly resurrected in this vibrant, fascinating celebration of a film industry—and a nation—that no longer exists.



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CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Mila Turajlic

MILA TURAJLIC was born in Belgrade and studied politics and media at the LSE in London, as well as documentary filmmaking at La Fémis in Paris. She worked on Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, Fade to Black, and The Brothers Bloom. Cinema Komunisto, her first feature doc, was developed in the Berlin Talent Campus, ARCHIDOC, and the IDFA Academy Summer School.
Sound Design
Aleksandar Protic
Composer
Nemanja Mosurovic
Producer
Dragan Pesikan
Editor
Aleksandra Milovanovic
Director
Mila Turajlic
Director of Photography
Goran Kovacevic
Co-Producers
Dejan Petrovic, Mila Turajlic, Iva Plemic Divjak, Goran Jesic

CONTACTS

Press Contact
Mila Turajlic
Belgrade, 11000
Phone: +381.11.3619.709
mila@cinemakomunisto.com
Sales Contact
Dragan Pesikan
Dribbling Pictures
Belgrade, 11000
Phone: +381.11.3619.709
film@cinemakomunisto.com