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Around the Balkans in 20 Days
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Around the Balkans in 20 Days

12 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Fifteen years after Yugoslavia's wars ended, a VICE crew buys a rented Yugo and drives through Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia to see what's left. The route starts at a theme park in northern Serbia built to recreate Marshal Tito's socialist republic, ride tickets and all, then moves to Srebrenica, where survivors and relatives describe the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys and the graves still being identified. Along the way the crew tracks down turbofolk, the techno-and-folk music genre bankrolled by Serbian and Croatian organized crime figures and tied to war-crime-era propaganda, interviewing singer Goga Sekulic and noting that her mentor, Ceca Ražnatović, is under house arrest for embezzlement and weapons possession. Locals in each country describe daily life split along ethnic and religious lines, Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, Muslim Bosniaks, two decades after the fighting stopped. The tone stays irreverent even in Srebrenica, which is either the film's method or its limitation depending on how you take it.