Serbie, année zéro

In this autobiographical documentary, Markovic makes a thorough analysis of his life, his work and the country where he lives. Based on fragments from his films and with the political situation in Yugoslavia in the Nineties in the background, Markovic tries to understand what happened exactly, who is to blame and what can or should now be done by him and his compatriots. These are not questions with a simple answer.Markovic starts with thoughts about his childhood in the years under Tito, then looks back on his films, talks to some of his close relatives and looks at the fate of people he worked with and who, to his mind, sometimes made stunning choices. This is all illustrated with shots of the country.Markovic was always opposed to Milosevic. That did not make his artistic and private life any easier, especially after, somewhere in the mid90s at a meeting with Bernard Henri Levy in Paris, he had expressed his opinion without beating about the bush. Now the country has been liberated from the devil, he can at last tell his story again. He does that in a personal and artistic way, but one that is also comic and filled with selfmockery. As Levy said: ‘Serbia, Year Zero is a political gesture, but it is also the work of a great artist.’