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ECHOES OF THE PLAINS EJ, SALAŠI

• 54'
• 300 rsd

The journey lives within him, and within us. It unfolds by horse-drawn carriage, by train, by bicycle, in words, in thoughts, and on foot. This is a journey through people, time and landscapes – across the Vojvodina plains, deserted farmsteads, Hungarian estates, and the cities linked to Zvonko Bogdan: Sombor, Subotica, Novi Sad, Belgrade. Gradually and unexpectedly, the film moves through Bogdan’s songs and the era that now survives only in them. It portrays a vanishing age – defined by rituals captured in his music as symbols of the region’s iconography, bohemianism, and a slow-paced life that modern times are sweeping away. It is a life shaped by hand, where every object we use was crafted by someone we know: a brother, a wife, a neighbor. Witnesses and contemporaries – father, mother, children, horses, taverns, pigeons, brides, hats, and tambourine players – intertwine stories and images into a braid that no longer resists the scissors of time, yet still, from the very beginning, stubbornly and enchantingly, grows toward the future. Back to...