We are pleased to inform you that the grand opening of the exhibition “Traces of a Time: Film Poster 1970-1979” will be held on May 5th, 2022 in the Hall of the Cultural Center of Belgrade, starting at 19:00. The exhibition will feature 41 film posters from the holdings and archives of Film Center Serbia. The exhibition will last until July 10th.
The exhibition will feature posters made for popular war spectacles, such as Stipe Delić’s Sutjeska, Žika Mitrovic’s Uzice Republic, Hajrudin Krvavac’s Partisan Squadron, and the film Walter Defends Sarajevo, also directed by Krvavec, the most watched Yugoslav film of all time and the culmination of “Yugo-Western” genre. The selection also included posters for the films Red Strike (Predrag Golubović), Duel for the Southern Railway (Zdravko Velimirović), Occupation in 26 Pictures (Lordan Zafranović), Traitors and War Criminals (Stole Janković), as well the posters for the films Knockout (Boro Drašković), Love Life of Budimir Trajković (Dejan Karaklajić), and The Man Who Should Be Killed (Veljko Bulajić) and many others.
The text by Dr. Jovan Čekić, written for the exhibition catalog, reads, among other things: “The establishment of mass culture in Yugoslavia began in the 1970s, while the first film, music, sports and television stars were profiled,” Čekić posits in his text for the exhibition catalog. “If in the beginning it is predominantly symbolic capital, with the approach of mass entertainment to the media standards of the West, the first outlines of celebrity culture are beginning to be clearly outlined. At that moment, new movie stars and celebrities from various registers of mass culture will prepare the ground for future capitalists of the economy of attention. ”
The exhibition “Traces of a Time: Film Poster 1970-1979” will visit other cities in Serbia after Belgrade, just as was the case with the exhibition “Traces of a Time: Film Poster 1945-1970”.