General information

Call No.:

350-1-1:66/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-1-1 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Europe: Balkan Archive

Located at

VHS PAL #66 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00000066

Date of air

1999

Date

1999

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

Portrait of Slobodan Milosevic and Mirjana "Mira" Markovic, the Serbian leader and his politically powerful wife, by Phil Rees, investigative journalist and narrator. The film analyzes the following:
- their lives in Pozarevac, Serbia, where they first met
- the characters of Milosevic and Markovic, through interviews with friends and acquaintances
- their relationship while students in Belgrade
- Markovic's past and character
- the chronology of Milosevic's rise through the ranks of the Communist Party under the wing of his mentor and friend Ivan Stambolic.
- Milosevic's initial trip to Kosovo Polje in April 1987 and rise to power
- Kosovo autonomy revoked in 1989
- Markovic's political party JUL and her influence on Milosevic
- regional elections in 1997 (?) and the months of protests in Belgrade and their effect on the Zajedno coalition.
- how Milosevic maintains power through the continuing external crises: the wars of the former Yugoslavia, the Dayton Peace Agreement, and the NATO bombing.
Interviews with Dusan Mitevic, former Director of TV Belgrade; Ivan Stambolic, former President of Serbia; Slavko Curuvija, murdered journalist and newspaper editor; Seska Stanojlovic, former high school colleague in Pozarevac; Nebojsa Popov, Communist Party Member and Belgrade University colleague; Miroslav Solevic, Serbian Nationalist Leader; Nebojsa Covic, former Mayor of Belgrade; Zoran Djindzic, Opposition leader and former Mayor of Belgrade; Vuk Draskovic, Opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister; Milo Djukanovic, President of Montenegro; and Bishop Artemije, Serbian Orthodox Church, are all featured.

Context

Associated Names

BBC Two (Producer)