Mitja Čander

When he was nineteen Belgrade and a half of the former Yugoslavia admired him. Too much money to spend, a famous and desirable pop singer Lepa Brena. Then he left Marakane and joined the black-and-white stripes soccer club at the famous JLA Stadium in Belgrade. Milko Djurovski. The soccer poetry of Milko’s legs sings of love, which sparkles in his eyes, when he smells freshly cut grass or the leather of the soccer ball. The whole world is trapped in this ball.

The film was prompted by the fact that in the capital of Slovenia, one of the republics of the former socialist state of Yugoslavia, a magazine was published that saw nine bans or confiscations – more than any other newspaper in the communist Europe. A thorn in the side of the authorities for thirty years, this student magazine brought together young intellectuals who detected possible democratic shifts in the public sphere. Never strictly political, their rebellion invariably had to do with culture and its latest practices in the more liberal countries.