Cinema Komunisto

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

STF was proud to co-present the Tribeca Film Festival screening of CINEMA KOMUNISTO this past spring, and now we are extra delighted to bring it directly to STFers.

Description from Tribeca Film Festival:

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. —Cara Cusumano

• Country Serbia and Montenegro
• Language Serbo-Croatian
• Rating NR
• Running Time 100 minutes
• Director Mila Turajlic

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