Yugo Cult

DEČKO KOJI OBEĆAVA | Šta znači biti Slobodan | Miša Radivojević

The second episode of the Yugo Kult series is dedicated to the film Boy Who Promises, a controversial 1981 film by Miša Radivojević. Made only a year after Tito's death, the film captured urban intensity and generational disorientation, heralding the end of an era, but also of the Yugoslav project. Aleksandar Berček, in his most significant role, created a generational figure of the eighties - a degenerate prophet, a "boy of promise" and a rebel who rebelled against bourgeois hypocrisy with a "dream of music", only to fall even lower afterwards. Characterized by the audience and critics as pornography, nihilism and cheap provocation, The Boy Who Promises is today a key achievement of the Yugoslav "new wave". Forty-five years later, The Promising Boy seems more relevant than ever, and we talk about the film and its legacy with the legendary director Miloš Miša Radivojević.