Museum of the Revolution

Everyday life/Society, Czechia/Germany 2022

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"The wind got up in the night and took our plans away," reads the proverb in the opening title of Museum of the Revolution. The words are an allusion to the 1961 plan to build a large museum in Belgrade as a tribute to socialist Yugoslavia. The museum was to preserve "the truth" about the Yugoslav people, but the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement. The dilapidated building today tells a very different story than the one the initiators envisioned 60 years ago. In the damp, pitch-black space live the outcasts of a society transformed by capitalism. The film follows a young girl who earns money on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother. The girl has a close friendship with an old woman who also lives in the basement. Against the backdrop of a changing city, the three women find refuge with each other.
92 min
HD
Starting at 12
Audio language:
Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles:
German

Awards

Heart of Sarajevo 2022 Best Documentary Film
Human Rights Film Festival 2021
BELDOCS 2022 Best Camera

More information

Director:

Srđan Keča

Writer:

Srđan Keča

Composer:

Hrvoje Nikšić

Sound Design:

Jakov Munižaba

Original title:

Muzej revolucije

Original language:

Serbo-Croatian

Further titles:

Il museo della Rivoluzione

Format:

1:1.78 HD, Color

Age rating:

Starting at 12

Audio language:

Serbo-Croatian

Subtitles:

German