KoČa PavloviĆ

War for Peace

Koča Pavlović is a reporter and director with the independent production group OBALA, and one of the founders of the Group for Changes NGO.

Film plot

The film highlights a sequence of events which bring about the blockade of Dubrovnik in 1991, and explores the internal dynamics of the whole process. It presents the military campaign as a segment of a larger story about the expansionistic nationalism and war for territories and ideology of the former SFRY. It is based on archive material (both video and audio) and on interviews with individuals who took part in the events. The author explores the subject by comparing past and present attitudes of the participants in the process (politicians, army commanders, soldiers, and reporters) and various observers and people such as political analysts, historians and ordinary people. By exploring the change in attitude and estimates of the so called "battle for Dubrovnik" in the last decade of the 20th century, the film provides a thorough analysis of the complete battle and gives to the public a more realistic presentation of these past events. The film also presents the so called "ordinary stories". Those are the stories of soldiers, prisoners of war (from Lora and Morinja), and the victims of plunders whose houses are destroyed, as well as those who had been members of military units which destroyed and emptied the villages in the region. The documentary presents the development of the official Montenegrin policy from the time of war to date.