Film Center Sarajevo Brings Emir Kusturica’s ‘Dolly Bell’ to Locarno’s Heritage Online Platform (EXCLUSIVE)
Set in Sarajevo in the mid-1960s, the film—an irreverent, coming-of-age story about a young man who falls in love with a prostitute—earned Kusturica the Golden Lion for best first film at the Venice Film Festival in 1981. It was the first of several prestigious international awards the director has won over the course of his heralded career, including the Palme d’Or for “When Father Was Away on Business” and “Underground” .
An even greater challenge is returning all of the film stock to Bosnia. Because the country lacked suitable laboratories during the years when it was part of a unified Yugoslavia, most negatives were sent to be developed in either Serbia or Croatia, where they remain in private archives to this day. Returning the stock to Bosnia is an expensive proposition, although Tanović remains unbowed. “We want these films,” she said. “It’s our heritage.
For the time being, “Dolly Bell” is sure to garner interest on the Heritage Online platform, where it can be viewed in the virtual screening room by registered users for up to one year. Among the other highlights from Film Center Sarajevo’s archives are the works of the influential director Bahrudin Bato Čengić and the omnibus “Kapi, vode, ratnici,” directed by the Yugoslav Black Wave directors Marko Babac, Živojin Pavlović, and Vojislav Rakonjac.
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