Golden Apricot: Serbian helmer wants to film movie about Mormons in Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - Goran Radovanovic’s “With Fidel Whatever Happens” was featured at Golden Apricot Yerevan-hosted international film festival.

This is his first participation in the international festival for the helmer who used to “work in Serbia and for Serbia.”

With the film set in Sierra Maestra, Cuba, 850 km east of Havana, the fate of people of Sierra Maestra is depicted on a day of ideological ecstasy, the day of the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution.

The next day, driven by inertia, they all return to the rhythm of everyday life, which is the same and is not very promising. Everyone is aware of that. Even the bullhorns that constantly blasts out ideological slogans that are 52 years old. But the revolution continues...

“I’m thankful to my communist childhood which allowed me to draw parallels between Serbia and Cuba,” the helmer joked.

In the film, the director addressed Cubans’ fear of totalitarian regime reigning in the country, incompatibility between the ideology and the real life. However, the helmer doesn’t judge his heroes, instead trying to analyze the events.

Radovanovic was surprised to learn of U.S.-originated Mormon religion in Armenia, which he believed odd in a country which was the first to adopt Christianity. “It’s clearly a great subject for a movie,” the helmer said.