Twelfth Week

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Twelfth Week

• Brian Hall, The Impossible Country A Journey
  through the Last Days of Yugoslavia

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Study session

• Wednesday, 630

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Reading-Discussion Assignment

• Hall, Part II Serbia
• Ivo Andrics Bridge on the Drina (finish by
  Thursday)

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On the Bridge This Week

• Political changes 1908 through 1913 discussions
  of young people
• Very verbal issues presented, argued, but no
  conclusions
• Lotte time advances
• Zorkas suitors
• 1914 to the end

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No Mans Land

• Danis Tanovic, director
• Three combattants Ciki and Cera (Bosniaks), and
  Nino (Bosnian Serb) Jane Livingstone (Katrin
  Cartlidge)

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Welcome to Sarajevo

• Directed by Michael Winterbottom
• 1997 film
• Characters Michael, Emira, Flynn (Woody
  Harrelson), Nina (Marisa Tomei), Risto (Goran
  Vinjic)

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Theo Angelopoulos Ulysses Gaze
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Background of Director

• One of new directors of 60s
• One of few to still be making films
• Philosophy, metaphor, symbol difficult films
• Most rooted in Greek history 1930s-70s

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Background of Film
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Ulysses Gaze 1996

• Thematic source Homers Odyssey
• Quest of A through the Balkans
• Ambitious, thoughtful,
• Excellent sound track music by Eleni Karaindrou

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Greece 20th Century
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The Quest (So Far)

• Thessaloniki
• Florina
• Korytsa Korçë
• Monastir Bitola
• Plovdiv (Philipopoulos)

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Greece

• History of Film
• Manakia brothers pioneers
• Film in the Balkan
• First scene from their work
• Weavers in Avdella, a Greek village, 1905

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The Brothers

• Miltiades and Yannakis Manakia
• Reenactment of one of them dying on the dock
• Ethnic identity not a simple matter

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Brothers in Bitola
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Devices, strategies

• Time shifting dock scene, past to present
• Sudden shift in place Florina (northern Greece)
• Controversial film showing
• Dialogues, monologues sound like poetry
• They often are T.S. Eliot (In my end is my
  beginning)

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A

• Name suggests first (first experiences, first
  gazes, innocence)
• Greek-American director, returning to his
  homeland
• Journey to find missing undeveloped reels of film
• Sees same woman in variety of roles (Maia
  Morgenstern)
• Mob scenes threatening, on brink of violence
  (something is wrong)

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Woman with Multiple Roles

• Related to Homers Odysseus
• Penelope, Calypso (held Ulysses captive for 7
  years), Circe (sorceress), Nausicaa
• Represents close human connections, human values
  in an inhuman world

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On to Albania

• Total anarchy
• Old woman at the Albanian border references to
  Civil War (and sister)
• Emigrants, poor refugees of the 1990s
• Wasteland
• Korçë (Korytsa)
• Listen for Muslim prayer in background

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On to Macedonia

• Speech by taxi driver on dying Greece
• Tossing the food frustration
• Skopje FYRM
• Why would he call it Skopje?
• Bitola-Monastiri
• Friendship again watch for the sincere human
  attachments

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Names and Identities

• Manakia, Manakis, Manaki
• Korçë - Korytsa
• Bitola Monastiri
• Plovdiv-Phillipopoulos

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Brothers identity

• Born in Avdela, near Grevena, Greece
• Village was Vlach (Vlah)
• Moved to Bitola in 1905
• Opened theater in Bitola in 1921
• Yannakis died in Thessaloniki in 1954
• Miltonides died in Bitola in 1964
• Bitola large Vlach population

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How is Identity Formed?
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Who are the Vlachs?
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Crossing Macedonia
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The Bulgarian Border

• Past and present WWI
• Arrest and exile
• Passing on to Plovdiv

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Romania Constanta

• Familyroots
• Time WWII

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Danube voyage

• The statue of Lenin
• Beograd

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Hall

• Why is the country impossible?
• How do the young people he meets illustrate all
  this?
• On to Serbia!

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Options

• Serb entrepeneur
• History of Beograd
• Sava and Drina divide between Rome and
  Constantinople
• Danube
• Nazi occupation

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Church of St. Sava
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Modern events

• Borovo selo
• Differing accounts
• beginning of conflict
• Vukovar major site of conflict
• Objectivity?

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Topics

• St. Sava church
• Serb-Croat hatred
• Chetniks, Partisans, Ustashe
• Serb-Jew affinities
• Kosovo, oral epic
• Tito and his memorials
• Serbs and Americans disappointment

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More Issues new

• Krajina
• Slovenia (Austrian affinities, national
  characteristics?)
• Eurovision song contest

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Time Line

• December 9, 1990 -- Miloevic elected president
  in Serbia's first multi-party election since
  World War II
• May events
• Borovo Selo incident
• Yugoslavia to ratify new president of the
  Presidency (see Hall p. 45)
• June 25, 1991 -- Croatia and Slovenia proclaim
  independence

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Results of independence movements

• June 1991 -- Yugoslav tanks fail to crush
  Slovenian independence. Fighting begins in
  Croatia between Croats and ethnic Serbs.
• December 19, 1991 -- Rebel Serbs declare
  independence in Krajina region which makes up
  almost a third of Croatia.
• December 1991 -- In Bosnia, the most ethnically
  mixed Yugoslav republic, Serb minority holds
  unofficial referendum opposing separation from
  Yugoslavia. Local Serb leaders proclaim new
  republic separate from Bosnia

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1992-93

• January 1992 -- U.N. forces enter Croatia and
  fighting subsides.
• February 29 - March 1, 1992 -- Bosnia's Muslims
  and Croats vote for independence in referendum
  boycotted by Serbs.
• April 6, 1992 -- War breaks out between Bosnian
  government and local Serbs, who start 1992-1995
  siege of capital Sarajevo.
• January 1993 -- Bosnia peace efforts fail, war
  breaks out between Muslims and Croats, previously
  allied against Serbs.

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Concert in Sarajevo

• Vedran Smailovic
• Bread line massacre in May 1992
• 22 people killed
• He played 22 days in front of the bakery to
  commemorate the victims
• Albinonis Adagio in G Minor

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1994-95

• 1995 -- Two major thrusts by Croatian forces
  recover most of Serb-held territory and 150,000
  Serbs flee to Serbia.
• November 21, 1995 -- Following NATO air strikes
  against Bosnian Serbs, Miloevic joins presidents
  of Bosnia and Croatia in peace agreement at
  U.S.-sponsored talks at Dayton, Ohio

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Progress since 1995?

• Divided Bosnia
• ICTY indicts and convicts
• 2003 EU takes over policing from UN
• 2004 Peacekeeping handed over to EUFor
• Bridge at Mostar rebuilt

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Dayton Map