26th Nov 2011 4:00pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
CINECITY
A fascinating documentary about the power of cinema and how Marshall Tito used film to help shape former Yugoslavia.
Lavishly illustrated with clips from more than 60 feature films, Serbian director Mila Turajlic explores the fictional world Josip Broz Tito constructed through state-sanctioned film. A passionate cinephile, Tito had his own projectionist for 32 years, sourcing a different film for him to watch every night in his private cinema. In the decades that Tito held together Yugoslavia, he poured an astounding amount of time and effort into expanding their film industry and half built the hugely ambitious Avala Film Studios. Soldiers served their entire tours of duty as extras on war films and if a real bridge needed blowing up that was ‘no problem’. Foreign producers flocked to the beautiful country and the likes of Richard Burton, Orson Welles and Sophia Loren came to film on the shores of Belgrade.
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