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Brooklyn - Gusinje TV

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Original title

Brooklyn - Gusinje

Year

1988

Running time

85 min.

Country

Yugoslavia

Director

Zelimir Zilnik

Screenwriter

Zelimir Zilnik

Cast

Cinematography

Dragoljub Mancic

Producer

Radiotelevizija Beograd, Televizija Novi Sad

Genre

Drama | TV Movie

Synopsis

A young seamstress is lured to a bordering mountain town between Yugoslavia and Albania to wait tables in a cafe with the promise of freedom and more money. She falls in love with a man –recently returned from New York– whom she hopes will rescue her from the drudgery of her everyday life and bring her back to the States. It was precisely television that allowed Zilnik to package his gut reactions to political upheaval into new movies with no time wasted. This ethnographic melodrama commissioned by Belgrade TV shows the meeting of Serbian and Albanian cultures, languages, customs and family traditions in the fascinating mountainous landscape. Concurrent with the upswing of anti-Albanian sentiment among the Serbs, it was supposed to mitigate the growing hatred. An act of solidarity and, at the same time, an unexpected combination of love story and anthropological sketch, where a Patti Smith song provides the only hope.

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