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Motel Nana

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Original title

Motel Nana

Year

2010

Running time

90 min.

Country

Serbia

Director

Predrag Velinovic

Screenwriter

Ranko Bozic

Cast

Music

Nevena Glusica

Cinematography

Milorad Glusica

Producer

Co-production Serbia-Bosnia and Herzegovina;

Komuna, VizArt, Association for Visual Culture, VizArt, Association for Visual Culture

Genre

Drama | Education. Bosnian War

Synopsis

"Fuck Sparta and the Spartans!", shouts a student from a Belgrade high- school after declaring his boredom during a history class. The young and passionate professor who was up to that point busy explaining Ancient Greece in an engaging way, remains speechless for a moment. Then in the next, he slaps the student. Everything is captured on a mobile phone camera by someone in class, sent to the media, and an over-sized and far-fetched scandal breaks out. Prime-time television shows debate "school violence" in light of the events – the student is pitied as the victim of a ruthless professor. Of course everything gets overly dramatized, and the professor gets suspended. Out of a job, he has to leave Belgrade and heads for Republica Srpska. And this is where the story begins. His new home is one of the bizarre outcomes of the Yugoslav wars from the 1990s. Though made up in its majority by Serbian ethnics, it is not part of Serbia, but of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Traces of the former military conflicts and bloody guerrilla war are still scattered everywhere here, and tensions between Bosnian Muslims and Serbian Christians did not disappear overnight, albeit no open disputes happen anymore. Once arrived here, the Serbian professor from Belgrade learns how different and personal history can get when you experiment it outside textbooks. Written by Adina

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Motel Nana

2010

Predrag Velinovic