The Family (Porodica)

Origin and Year: Serbia, 2021	Director: Bojan Vuletić
Runnning time: 2 x 45 min

Q&A after the screening.

For some a war criminal from whose rule the country will recover for decades, for others a symbol of the nation. Slobodan Milošević was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal in 1999, but only lost the elections a year later, and handed power over to the opposition after public protests. He continued to live in the presidential residence for another several months. The drama, which drew millions of viewers to screens in the still divided Serbia this year, describes the events of the last three days before his arrest, which the former head of state spent in his Belgrade villa surrounded by family and friends and the country’s citizens in front of their television screens. We follow the events of those days from the perspectives of Milošević’s family, the special police forces, the Serbian government, the media and the former president’s admirers, and understand through this how powerfully the former president controlled both the state forces and the mindset of the Serbian population during his era. A miniseries about the end of a family and an entire historical era that Milošević and his family greatly influenced.