Marko Stojiljković

3 weeks ago | ubiquarian.net | Marko Stojiljković |Marina Richter

Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals Some of us remember Soldier Ahmet, a son of Turkish immigrants, a devout Austrian patriot, soldier, field medic and instructor in the Austrian Army, a man who loved his family, but defied its long-standing traditions by refusing to get married with a girl brought from the “Old Country” and, lastly, an amateur stage actor who did not want to give up on his dream about a professional career in theatre. Throughout Janis Lenz’s 2021 documentary, Ahmet searched...

3 weeks ago | ubiquarian.net | Marko Stojiljković |Marina Richter

Diagonale, Documentaries, Festivals To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy’s quote and apply it to the second half of 20th-century European politics: “All prosperous, capitalist countries look alike, while every communist country is miserable in its own way.” The quote also applies to the 90s after the communist regimes fell: the capitalist countries of the West continued to evolve their system.