The film “Darkness” about the suffering of Serbs in Kosovo will be shown at a film festival in Italy.
As part of the 33rd film festival in Trieste (Italy), the premiere of a new film by Serbian director Dusan Milic “Darkness” will take place.
The film talks about pogroms Serbs in Kosovo in March 2004.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the showing of Milich’s new work is scheduled for January 23 of this year. A joint creative team from Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Denmark worked on the 108-minute film. Among the stars featured in the film is the world-famous Serbian actor Slavko Stimac.
The Darkness is about a girl, Milica, who lives in constant fear with her mother and grandfather in her home in the Serbian enclave of Kosovo after her father and uncle disappear. For some time, the Serbian family is guarded by an Italian contingent that is friendly to them. KFOR, however, terrible news comes that the Italians are being transferred to another place.
Serbian viewers will see the film in late February - early March. Serbian screenwriter and film director Dusan Milic is known for the films “Strawberry in the Supermarket”, “Butch in Guča”, “The World is Great, and Salvation Is Around the Corner”, Travelator.
The pogroms of the Serbs began on March 17, 2004, after the bodies of two Albanian boys, 9 and 12 years old, were discovered by the international occupation police contingent in the Ibar River (it was later established that they drowned, unable to cope with the fast current), whose deaths were caused by local provocateurs announced the Serbs.
The pogrom lasted two days, during which 19 Serbs were killed, about four thousand became refugees, about 900 Serbian houses were burned, 39 churches and monasteries were destroyed, including 18 monuments of medieval Serbian architecture.
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