By definition, punk is a subculture, alternative culture and youth culture based on the interaction of cultural elements different from the elements of popular culture and other sub-genres.It has its own distinctive music, ideology, dress code, visual identity, dance, literature and film. Punks are mostly young people with a different opinion, who in common have the spirit of anti-establishment and non-recognition of the canon. As a musical direction, it existed in full swing in the 70s and 80s of the last century, exerting an influence on the rock scene of that time. How did appear in ex-Yugoslavia? What were the "hotspots"? Did he pose a danger to the state and socio-economic system of that time? Can one see punk as a way of life?
In the 1970s, Europe and America were shaken by the new musical genre of punk. The fury of the young generation was expressed through this uncompromising and extremely provocative musical fashion, and somehow shyly, some time before the death of Josip Broz Tito, punk rock reached the Yugoslav youth through some open door of the Communist Party. See how it all started in Belgrade in the movie - I was a punk before you. Zoran Kostic Cane, Cirilo, Slobodan Nesovic Loka, Srdjan Dragojevic, Srdjan Gojkovic Gile, Branko Rosic, Djole Rahaja, Beska, Nebojsa Pajkic and many other Belgrade punks of that time talk about the first days of punk in Yugoslavia.
This documentary was inspired by the artistic life of Serbian actress Sonja Savić. Being a wonder child, a star of Yugoslavian cinematography, a sex symbol, and urban legend of the eighties generation, a fighter against establishment, Sonja Savić had always attracted attention. Simply put, she always looked, spoke and thought differently from others, she was entirely autonomous, an authentic phenomenon of Serbian culture. In the documentary SONJA, friends and colleagues of Sonja Savić testify on many aspects of her life and work, and a special emphasis is put on Sonja’s libertarian, rebellious, Don Quixote type of nature.
In chronological order, the film follows the career of Momčilo Bajagić – Bajaga, one of the most prominent rock musicians from former Yugoslavia, together with his band ‘Instructors,’ who have been accompanying him for 25 years now.
A documentary about Novi Sad’s rock band Boye, which in the early 80s gave life to female spirit in Yugoslavia’s r’n’r music, fully aware of the type of music they chose, managed to position themselves on, up to then exclusively “male” scene and forced themselves as the original occurrences.
Cane and Anton, the frontman and the lead guitarist of one of the most acclaimed Serbian rock bands Partibrejkers (The Partybreakers), tell about their stands and music career.
Having cult Serbian new wave band Šarlo Akrobata (Charlot the Acrobat) and their members as a central point, this film shows cultural milieu of the 1980s in Yugoslavia, and subsequent downfall of alternative culture in it.
Akademija Republika shows a group of people gathered around the club from 1981 until 1995 and how it changed and influenced the cultural and night life around them.
Belgrade destiny brings together people with different kind of lives, people from various generations and backgrounds. What they have in common is rock music, the last anger at what has happened to us all.
Singer of the Yugoslav/Serbian rock group Partibrejkers
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