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Deserters, Damir Markovina, Croatia.
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Sarajevo review: Deserters (2022)
Sarajevo Film Festival
Documentary Film Competition
In his previous, mid-length documentary Wait for Me, Damir Markovina explained the paradoxes of the post-Yugoslav reality for “proper” Yugoslav families, using his own as an example: four people had their shared lives torn between four cities and three countries.
In his Sarajevo Film Festival competition title Deserters (also mid-lenght), he deals with his hometown of Mostar, his generation of people born in the early-to-mid 70s and their destinies during the war that was especially brutal in that city.
The filmpremiered in Jihlava last year where it won two prizes (for Best CEE Film and for Best Sound Design), touring – among others, the selected festivals like Trieste and ZagrebDox afterwards, before reaching Sarajevo.
Markovina opens the film with one of the most iconic and terrifying archival recordings of the 90s war in Yugoslavia: the destruction of the Old Bridge in
