He socialist government loses the elections and does not accept the results. He reacts by massively canceling votes, which causes hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets to protest. He socialist government infiltrates individuals among the protesters so that they cause disturbances and the police have an excuse to crush the protests.
It seems that I am chronicling our days but the truth is that I have gone back almost three decades to the Serbia 1996. It’s what counts The lost homelanda film that arrives this weekend in cinemas throughout Spain.
We are going to focus on a young man, Stefan, a brilliant student, good son, athlete and with good friends. He will be indirectly involved in all the events that his country is experiencing since his mother is the spokesperson for Milosevic’s government. In those 1996 elections, the socialists lost a good part of the important cities at the polls, including Belgrade. And although Serbia at that time was a country narcotized by propaganda in which the echoes of the Yugoslav war still resonated, people took to the streets.
Stefan will experience the crossroads of living at home with a mother, his parents are divorced, aligned with a decadent regime. On the other hand he is very attached to his grandfather who longs for the now defunct Yugoslaviahence the title The lost homeland, are characters who long for a country that no longer exists. The question is, in which country does Stefan want to live? In his family or in that of everyone around him.
Director, Vladimir Perisic, knows how to mix genres very well: in a certain sense The lost homeland It is a “coming-of-age”, that is, the passage from adolescence to adulthood, but peppered with political cinema and even melodrama in Stefan’s relationship with his mother.
Impressive work of the Serbian actress Jasna Đuričićwhich we saw not long ago in Quo Vadis, Aida? about the war in Bosnia. He goes from the absolute coldness that the character needs when he talks about his work as spokesman for Milosevic’s government to the warmth when he is with his son.
The lost homeland was awarded at the Critics’ Week Cannes Film Festival and the Lumiere Awards. It has also passed with very good reviews at festivals such as the Mostra de Valencia, Sarajevo, São Paulo, Chicago and Athens…
Is a good movie that cooks slow but constant fire everything that the protagonist is experiencing, all the decisions he has to make. A film that denotes pain at its core and is very much autobiographical on the part of the director.
