Pawel Pawlikowski

Serbian Epics

Director	Pawel Pawlikowski
Country of production:	UK
Year of production:	1992
Duration:	50 min
Camera:	Jacek Petrycki, Bodgan Dziworski
Editing:	Stefan Ronowicz
Production:	BBC

Film plot

This film is much more than the story about Radovan Karadžić, this is the presentation of medieval rites through which Serbian nationalism, born after the fall of communism, re-expressed itself. Its war characteristic is well known, however, Pawlikowski managed to cover less know rites and symbolical aspects. "Serbian Epics" goes beyond the framework of usual war portraits. This is the documentary dealing with one topic from anthropological point of view rather than journalistic one.

Filmography

1988: Extraordinary Adventures
1989: Vaclav Havel
1990: Moscow Pietushki
1991: Dostoevsky's Travels
1992: Serbian Epics
1993: The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin
1995: Tripping with Zhirinovsky
1997: Lucifer over Lancashire; The Stringer
1999: Twockers
2000: The Last Resort
2004: My Summer of love