Abstract:

This paper deals film production centered in Belgrade, which transformed into Serbian national cinema along with long, painful and violent disintegration process, Yugoslavia experienced during 1990’s. It also inquires how does this Belgrade centered cinema relate to disintegration of Yugoslavia, totalitarian and militarist   Milošević regime and breakdown in Belgrade and rest of the country caused by war and clashes. Belgrade is both capital city of a nation state and a sophisticated metropolis beyond national culture. The study particularly focuses on films with a Belgrade centered point of view, dealing themes such as militarism, totalitarianism, culture of violence, economic crisis, moral decadence, urban-rural rupture, politic opposition, post- Milošević era, settling and apology.

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