In 1992, a rock concert titled “Belgrade Rock Winner” was held during the Festival Belgrade Spring. The concert was broadcasted live by RTS. During the concert, Rambo Amadeus climbed on stage unannounced, wearing a recognizable fur coat. He interrupted Bebi Dol’s appearance and addressed the audience.
After this, for a long time he was removed from the state television program that broadcasted the concert. The then RTS planned to stop the live broadcast of the program as soon as Bora Djordjevic and Rambo Amadeus come on stage.
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“The Depth Two” is a documentary about the mass grave discovered in Batajnica in 2001, in which bodies of Kosovo Albanians, civilians killed during the war in Kosovo, were found. The film is a combination of testimonials and photographs of places where these crimes took place 17 years ago. The author and director of this film is Ognjen Glavonic. The film was produced by Non-Aligned Films in 2016.
Documentary program “Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text” was made in the production of Radio Television of Serbia. The author is Svetlana Janjićijević. The first part of this documentary explains how the text of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) – Memorandum – came into the public eye, ie, in the newspaper “Vecernje novosti” and what were the reactions to the text by the leading political figures of Serbia, Ivan Stambolic, Dobrica Cosic and Slobodan Milosevic, as well as how the text was seen by Croatian and Slovenian politicians. They give their opinion on the document in addition to politicians and historians, sociologists, political scientists, writers and journalists. It features 25 speakers from Serbia and Croatia.
Documentary directed by Janko Balka from 1994. Based on the book “Criminal which Changed Serbia” by Aleksandar Knezevic and Vojislav Tufegdzic. The film is about the sudden rise in crime in Serbia during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It contains parts of the interviews with the leading people of the “Belgrade Underworld” and of the police in the 1990s, featuring photographs of leaders and members of criminal gangs.
The second part of the documentary “Memorandum, sin of the unfinished text” was produced by Radio Television of Serbia in celebration of the thirty anniversary of the creation of the Memorandum, the text of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts SANU. The author is Svetlana Janjićijević. The second part of this documentary talks about the reasons why the text of the memorandum is interpreted as a war-racing and nationalist one, what was the national position of Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, and how the memorandum was quoted in the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic at the Hague Tribunal as “evidence of the plan for the creation of a big Serbia” . The show lasts 52 minutes.
“Fortress” – memory of war, author Nenad Vukosavljevic, shot in 2013, voice: Sanja Burazerovic from Zavidovici, duration: 4:27 minutes
The “Batajnica Initiative for a Memorial” is a web project of the Fund for Humanitarian Law, with the aim of establishing a memorial center in the area where mass graves were discovered in which bodies of Albanians from Kosovo were deposited. In Batajnica tombs, the remains of 700 victims of crimes were committed in several places in Kosovo during 1999. The exhumations in Batajnica began in 2001. In two verdicts of the ICTY, the responsibility of the highest Serbian police officials in the cover-up of crimes has been established.
“Pretty Village, Pretty Flame” is a feature film shot in 1996, directed by Srdjan Dragojevic. The script was written by Vanja Bulic, Srdjan Dragojevic, Biljana Maksic and Nikola Pejakovic. The film is inspired by a true event.
Proceedings in the field of history, sociology, anthropology, etc. devoted to the wars of the 1990s and the “Serbian issue” between 1991-1995. The papers are grouped according to the following topics: Destruction and creation of states; Roots of trauma; Ideological guidance; Political mobilization; Media War; Conflict and compromise.
“Untold stories” (2014) is a research project of the Vojvodina Civil Center (VGC) that deals with the issue of warfare – forced mobilization of civilians from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia on the territory of Vojvodina during the wars of the 1990s. Each of the individual stories represents a sum of individual experiences of various actors transmitted in a written, audio or video form. In addition to the statements, within each story, media documents related to certain events, official state documents, court records and factual material are presented, which contributes to understanding the context in which these events took place.