RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

undertake the most dramatic quests to discover new knowledge and wonders that leave us wide-eved. J ust as he has alreadv done a number of times, using pictures, sounds and words to create outstanding documentarv films, Krsto Škanata this time has used onlv words and sound to show and caution us about the causes and consenuences of those pivotal events in 1948 Škanata’s Fortv-eighth, composed by above all subtle expressive methods, is reminiscent of a pecuiiar drama whose acts tell us about the rise and the fall of Stalin, his outrages which exceed evervthing that has been inscribed in the black annals of manldnd, the devisers of the Cominform, aboutTito’s determined and thorough-going opposition toStalinism, about the furious attacks on our countrv and its independence, the fearlessness of our people who, in those fateful davs for all of us, did not lose their presence of mind. I n the space of sixtv minutes Krsto Š kanata dramaticallv resurrects many dates, circumstances, days and years of humiliation and struggle; he brought to life the pogroms, defiance and resistance, the staunchness of unshakeable decisions, evervthing that 1948 meant for Vugoslavia, politicallv, sociallv and morallv. Assisting Škanata in this extraordinary undertaMng, lending their know!edge and abilities, were dramatist DašaDrndič, sound technician Petar Marič, music editor Nada Starčevič, and narrators: Draga Jonaš. Miodrag Zdravković and Dejan Čavič.

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