Crime that Changed Serbia (1995)

Original title

Vidimo se u Čitulji

Directed by

Janko Baljak

Genre

documentary film

Country

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Runtime

36 min

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary presents interviews with criminals from the Belgrade underworld in the early 1990s. It shows the chaotic rise of organized crime during the Yugoslav wars through a news report style with firsthand accounts.

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What happens

See You in the Obituary (Serbian: Видимо се у читуљи / Vidimo se u čitulji) is a 1995 television documentary directed by Janko Baljak, and scripted by Aleksandar Knežević and Vojislav Tufegdžić. It is based on the book The Crime that Changed Serbia (Криминал који је изменио Србију / Kriminal koji je izmenio Srbiju) by Knežević and Tufegdžić and was produced by the Belgrade-based independent news broadcaster B92. The unprecedented contacts and subsequent interviews with the criminals would have not been possible had not Knežević and Tufegdžić been covering the post of organised crime in their respective magazines, gaining the trust of the depicted characters. In more than 90 percent of cases Knežević and Tugedžić, due to the dangerous circumstances that required extreme caution and as small film crew as possible, were accompanied only by a camera operator. Made in the form of an extended news report and narrated by journalist Dina Čolić-Anđelković, the film presents a snapshot of the chaotic Belgrade criminal underworld in the early 1990s which sprung up against the backdrop of Yugoslav wars. The film is composed of fragments from interviews with individuals directly involved with criminal activities either through perpetrating them or through trying to stop them. Over the years the film developed a cult following, mainly due to its raw authenticity, characters interviewed, and the portrayal of the politically, economically and socially turbulent period of the early and mid 1990s in Serbia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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