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Museum of the Revolution

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"The wind got up in the night and took our plans away," reads the proverb in the opening titles of MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION. It's a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. Meant to "safeguard the truth" about the Yugoslav people, the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement. The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned by the initiators 60 years ago. The cavernous, damp, pitch-dark space is inhabited by the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism: a precocious and energetic little girl who earns cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother, and their friend, an older woman also living in the basement. In his award-winning, visually stunning and formally daring feature documentary debut, director and cinematographer Srdjan Keca powerfully illuminates the tender relationship between the three women -- a source of refuge, community, and hope -- against the backdrop of a city in transformation.

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Natalia Winkelman New York Times 05/18/2023
This is an engrossing documentary, and one that raises questions about the ethics of intervening (or not) in the lives of people struggling to get by. Go to Full Review Fedor Tot Vague Visages 06/13/2023
At this point, Museum of the Revolution and its contemporaries are merely depicting a problem. They all do so effectively and imaginatively. And of course, Museum of the Revolution has no moral or artistic responsibility to provide answers. Go to Full Review Conor Truax In Review Online 06/09/2023
Museum of the Revolution is a film that reminds the viewer of the breadth of human experience, and the impossibility of capturing that in language. Go to Full Review Glenn Dunks The Film Experience 05/22/2023
Museum of the Revolution is a bit harder to take in. Even at just 90 minutes, even the most committed of devotees to this sort of documentary work may find its dispatch from the streets a bit too much like hard work. Go to Full Review Vladan Petkovic Cineuropa 05/18/2023
We see... two women beaten, bruised and broken by their lives – but still not giving up. Go to Full Review Christopher Cross Tilt Magazine 05/18/2023
Museum of the Revolution is an intimate but painful watch. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Srdjan Keca

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Milica Novakov

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Vera Novakov

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Marija Savic

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Srdjan Keca

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Synopsis "The wind got up in the night and took our plans away," reads the proverb in the opening titles of MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION. It's a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. Meant to "safeguard the truth" about the Yugoslav people, the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement. The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned by the initiators 60 years ago. The cavernous, damp, pitch-dark space is inhabited by the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism: a precocious and energetic little girl who earns cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother, and their friend, an older woman also living in the basement. In his award-winning, visually stunning and formally daring feature documentary debut, director and cinematographer Srdjan Keca powerfully illuminates the tender relationship between the three women -- a source of refuge, community, and hope -- against the backdrop of a city in transformation.
Director
Srdjan Keca
Producer
Srdjan Keca, Vanja Jambrovic
Screenwriter
Srdjan Keca, Srdjan Keca
Distributor
Lightdox
Production Co
Nutprodukce, Croatian Radiotelevision, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Serbian
Release Date (Theaters)
May 19, 2023, Limited
Runtime
1h 31m