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CONNECTIONS WITH SLOVENIA<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dear filmmakers and friends of cinema, it gives me great pleasure and honour, as a \u201cfriend of Slovenian cinema\u201d, to be the guest of honour at the 24th Festival of Slovenian Film Portoro\u017e.<\/p>\n

Serbian cinema is connected with Slovenia in many wonderful ways. And vice-versa. In Serbia, we say \u201cNiko nije prorok u svom selu\u201d, or \u201cNobody is a prophet in their own land\u201d. So when the great director, my friend \u017divojin Pavlovi\u0107 was repeatedly prevented from making films in Serbia for political reasons, he sought and found work in Slovenia. On the other hand, my dear Slovenian friend Karpo Godina started his professional career as a camera operator and director in Serbia, where he became part of the \u2018Black Wave\u2019. For reasons still incomprehensible to me, this resulted in a ban on screening his film Nedostaje mi Sonja Henie<\/em>, or I Miss Sonja Henie<\/em>, made during FEST 1971 in Belgrade, which went on for decades. Such were the times…<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve received my first lifetime achievement award in Slovenia rather than in Serbia. It was in 2007 at the exciting festival of film and wine in Ljutomer, the birthplace of Slovenian cinema that was home to Dr Karol Grossmann, the pioneer of Slovenian cinema the festival is named after. This is how I discovered the beautiful region of Prlekija, which I\u2019ve since visited almost every year. The good spirt of the Belgrade Black Wave, Branko Vu\u010di\u0107evi\u0107, wrote the script titled \u2018Umetni raj\u2019, or \u2018Artificial Paradise\u2019, about Karol Grossmann spending time with Fritz Lang in Ljutomer, where Lang was on his military service back in Austria-Hungary, and Karpo turned the script into a beautiful film. We all drank the same\u2014white wine from Sipon grapes from Prlekija.<\/p>\n

In the 70s, the doyen of Slovenian film criticism, Jo\u017ee Dolmark, did his military service in Belgrade. We would hang out in the cinematheque, sharing our views on all the U.S. and French films we had seen. It was a time of struggles for fair treatment of genre films, which at the time were frowned upon by the established local film critics with a background in East European socially engaged cinema and its values. After Dolmark returned to Slovenia, he collaborated with Zdenko Vrdlovec, a fellow traveller of ours, in turning our excitement for the humorous films by Franti\u0161ek \u010cap, an underrated filmmaker in Yugoslavia at the time, into one of the first books dedicated to a Yugoslavian filmmaker. This unity in the struggle for universal values of all, not just \u201cart\u201d films, could also be seen from our writing in Ekran, a Slovenian film magazine that still exists today.<\/p>\n

Finally, many Serbian actors have played the leading roles in some of the key Slovenian films, and worked with the best Slovenian directors \u2013 Ljubi\u0161a Samard\u017ei\u0107 with Bo\u0161tjan Hladnik, Sonja Savi\u0107 with Jan Cvitkovi\u010d, etc. Appearing in the leading roles in Sedmina<\/em> (Funeral Feast<\/em>) by Matja\u017e Klop\u010di\u010d are Milena Dravi\u0107, Sne\u017eana Nik\u0161i\u0107, and formerly Zagreb-based, now American Serb, Rade \u0160erbed\u017eija. Needless to say, it was also the other way around. Miha Baloh and \u0160pela Rozin, two of the most beautiful Yugoslav film stars, made frequent appearances in Serbian films.<\/p>\n

It seems as if we\u2019ve liked each other.<\/p>\n

Slobodan \u0160ijan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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