ONCE UPON A TIME

The topic of this documentary is the punk-rock scene in Novi Sad (Serbia's second largest city), during the first half of 1990s. The bands that are a part of the story ('Generacija bez buducnosti', 'Ritam nereda', 'Love Hunters', 'Atheist Rap', 'Zbogom Bruce Lee', 'Vrisak generacije', 'Obojeni program', 'Boye', 'Provokacija', 'Korozija' … ) had a far bigger influence than one might expect, especially considering the size of the province and the fact that the destruction and horror [of the Balkan wars of the 1990s] were taking place only a few hundred kilometers away. The "mission" of the documentary is to preserve the spirit that kept thousands of young people mentally alive, even as they came of age during one of the worst periods in history of this part of Europe – Milosevic's Serbia. Against this historical context, it is amazing that such a positive force survived such destructive mechanism. Future generations could learn many lessons from these witnesses. The cultural context of the story is an urban, western-oriented society that is to be credited for almost all positive changes in the not so progressive enviroment of the Balkans.