The Loudest Silence

The backbone of the "Državni Posao (Government Job)" are satirical talks between the three actors, the comments are reminiscent of the "stand-up" form. These are short, witty comments and observations on daily life, circumstances, sociopolitical situation, sports, entertainment world, their personal opinions on various topics. The main idea is to present day in a non-existent government company and three employees of thinking about daily events in it, but also about life and society in general. Topics drawn from the daily and weekly press, for various blogs, websites, talk about movies, series, shows - radio and television. The idea is that actors humorously comment on current events, to laugh viewers and encourage them to think about them.

Teodor Kovač, Ivan Ivanji and Marta Flato survived the 1942 pogrom known as the Novi Sad raid, when Hungarian fascists killed more than a thousand people from Novi Sad and dumped their bodies under the ice of the Danube river. Sociology professor Marija Vasić fights against forgetting and teaches students about the Novi Sad raid, while the local authorities erect a controversial monument to innocent victims, and on that list are the names of war criminals who participated in the Novi Sad raid.

Media trials are a common occurrence in the Balkans, and newspapers, especially tabloids, conduct witch-hunts unpunished. Whoever stands in the way of the powerful ones becomes a victim of stigmatization by the media and institutions, as exemplified in the case of fashion photographer, stylist and DJ Srđan Šveljo, who was accused of pedophilia by the media, without ever being put on trial for that particular crime.

The story about the humiliation of survivors of the Mamula Fortress, a notorious former WWII concentration camp on the small Montenegrin island as the Montenegrin Government has decided to transform it into a luxury resort.