Coming Out Of The Darkness (photograph by Gina Brocker)

Photograph taken by Gina Brocker on 24th of January 2009.

P.S. I heard on Friday of the death of a famous Serbian actress Sonja Savic of a heroin overdose in the September 2008. The whole generation of artists who came to prominence in the early 1980s was wiped out by the drug. I am just watching the documentary "Kao da je bilo nekad" about Yugoslav band EKV. Out of its six members five have died in the period from the 1992 - 2002 of addiction related causes. In the documentary, Sonja Savic (now dead herself) and the rest of her contemporaries are hinting at the possibility that the government planted cheap heroin in order to sabotage the art movement that was gaining too much in popularity. The half of a Serb in me (that usually means the paranoid part) thinks of this idea as plausible. I'll finish this with a quote from Sonja Savic, where she's talking about the people who idealize the old country:

"Ah ... some people think we were happy then. I was happy when I found the others who were equally unhappy as myself."

And my favorite film from the 1981 that talks about that generation. Decko koji obecava.