“Humans against killing… sounds like junkies against dope”
Miomir Grujic Fleka (1954-2003)
Zombietown is how Miomir Grujic Fleka called Belgrade back in the nineties. Fleka was a DJ at B92 during the Milosevic rule. Biography on the Maniac shop website describes him best, so I am just going to translate a part of it:
Fleka was the creator and manager of the popular club “Akademija”, a club that gave birth to such cult names of ex-Yu rock such as Partibrejkers or Satan Panonski. He is the author of legendary show Radio Sismis (Radio Bat), state of the art experimental talk show that uncovered the secret, dark life of the Serbian capital and was an unscrupulous voice of off scene, without so much as a milligram of censorship.
Back in 1995, director Mark Hawker did a documentary about Fleka and the radio B92, living under Milosevic and fighting against his twisted system, with the help of music and sense of humor, something “nationalists don’t have” as radio B92 cleverly noticed at the time. Here is the first part of this great documentary entitled Zombietown:
If you want to see the rest, go to Vlaksi’s profile at Youtube and check it out. (thanks, Vlaksi for uploading this!)
People appearing as narrators in the movie, besides Fleka, are Uros Djuric, Djile Markovic, and in short segments, Luna Lu.
Fleka died in 2003. Times are different today, there is no more Milosevic, radio B92 is no longer just a radio, no longer underground, neither is Luna Lu, and Uros Djuric is not far from going mainstream, if such a thing as mainstream exists anymore. Maybe the only one still refusing to surrender is Djile as you could have witnessed some posts earlier.
What I found interesting is that the thing they are trying to do in the documentary is in a way the same we are trying to do with this site, albeit in another time and circumstances: explain Belgrade, Serbia and Serbs to foreigners. And even though the narrators know that it is virtually impossible to do that, they still do it. And so do we. Why? Because it’s fun.
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Ima li negde da se nađe ovaj film pošto ga na YT nema više? :S
E jebiga. Moracu da pocnem da skidam filmove sa youtuba i da ih kacim negde drugde, ovo nema smisla…
Ne mogu da nadjem film nigde trenutno
Jebote, ubih se da nadjem ovo !!!
i nista …
Eh, da si dosao ovde pre godinu dana, nasao bi ga
Ne mogu da se setim nicka coveka koji je to okacio na Youtube, ali mislim da je otvorio nalog samo da bi okacio dokumentarac. Moguce da mu je neko trazio da skine video zbog copyrighta.
It's not zombietown but "kenjigrad"
I’ve moved your comment to the right place (at least I hope it’s the right place), hope that’s ok with you.
Hello Viktor – No, I meant you could delete the original comment, because I added it under the wrong post!