Cinema Wednesdays - Loris S. Musumeci
«There's the big story, the one that rules; and there's the little story, the one that suffers, the one of the people.»
Nicolas Wagnières deals with a building from the past, the Hotel Jugoslavija in Belgrade. The film is, however, about small-scale history. This documentary is not an encyclopedic article devoted to the building that gives it its title. Instead, the director takes a personal look at Yugoslavia and the hotel that haunts it, so symbolic in his eyes of a bygone era. He also presents on screen the history of «the people», those who believed in the Yugoslav federation, who carried the Hotel Jugoslavija in their hearts, but who also suffered the death of a nation, and now see it naked and destroyed.
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