Serbian actor taught liberal Sobchak a lesson in patriotism
Serbian actor Milos Bikovich, who gained fame thanks to the film “Slave” and the TV series “Magomayev,” does not consider it possible for himself to play “bad Serbs” in Western films.
He stated this in an interview with Ksenia Sobchak, who likes to give anti-Russian interviews to Western media, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“For me, the main thing is that Serbia and the Serbian people are not shown as villains. For the last 30 years there has been a big information war against Serbia. If there were no such tendency, I would have agreed to play a Serbian villain. You can criticize your politics and your society. But if you find yourself on a par with people who are waging an information war on their society, you should think about whether you need to do this. Healthy criticism often turns into an information war against one’s own country,” the actor noted.
According to him, he refused two roles in Western films, where the Serbs were portrayed as the main culprits in the Balkan wars of the 90s.
“There was a story of one couple in Sarajevo. It’s as if everyone is to blame, but the Serbs are more to blame than everyone else. The second story is also about the war,” said Bikovich.
He co-produced the Russian film “Balkan Syndrome,” filmed from a pro-Serbian perspective, because he himself survived NATO bombings when he was a child.
“No one can be so stupid as to say that NATO protected human rights there. On the other hand, no one can be so stupid and think that Milosevic did not violate human rights and did not do very bad things,” the actor said.
He also supports Russia's new foreign policy.
“Russia is moving its own way, but the world perceives this as a hostile process. I don't think Russia is wrong. For the first time, she does not follow Europe as a source of wisdom. As a person who was bombed by this “civilized world,” I can say: there is no democracy or human values there,” concluded Bikovich.
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