rtv catalog for 2013
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Catalog design for Radio Television of Vojvodina.TRANSCRIPT
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COMEDY SERIES
LIFESTYLE SERIES
RELIGION
DOCUTAINMENT
DOCUMENTARY SERIES
ONE-OFF DOCUMENTARIES
PUPPEDYSTORIES
Even though it was produced in the 1980s, the puppet series Puppedy Stories is still very much alive. It has its own Facebook group and produces over 10,000 hits on Google. The seemingly incompatible characters (which include, among others, Bedouin, Pamela the camel, Artemides the eagle, Fox Vox, the Canine Convicts, King and General Sneaky) live together in the same yard as an odd but harmonious group. The series is made up of two to five minute independent stories. A re-edited version will be available in September 2013.
http://youtu.be/xJzl0hMJyJg
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BALKAN EXPRESS3 x 50 minutesyear of production 1983
World War II, Serbia. A band of small-time crooks aren’t interested in either the occupation or the resistance movement—their lone ambition is to survive in one piece. They flee from the capital to the countryside disguised as a musical troupe called “Balkan Express” and wait for the end of the war while supporting themselves through petty theft. Despite the fact that all of their energy is being spent on avoiding everything related to the war, a combination of circumstances forces them into a situation where they must act like heroes. Black humor interweaves with an exciting plot and nostalgic music seems to struggle with the horrors of war.
http://youtu.be/55rrdYJIzzU
FATHER ĆIRA AND FATHER SPIRA3 x 60 minutesyear of production 1982
In the middle of the 19th century, the inhabitants of a village in the Banat region of Pannonia are enjoying a relatively idyllic life. They are wealthy and pious and are easily able to support two clergymen. The clergymen and their families also enjoy an equally idyllic life until a new teacher arrives. The clergymen—and their wives, in particular— don’t just see him as a potential son-in-law, but are willing to engage in an all-out war to the death over him. This comedy about character and mentality isn’t without an element of nostalgia for a time when life was simpler.
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PAPERPUSHERS12 x 30 minutesyear of production 2012/2013
The basis for the series Paper pushers are conversations between three characters employed in a state-owned company. Their remarks and commentary about a variety of topics dealing with everyday trifles seem as if they come from a cabaret or stand-up comedy routine. The topics are dictated by everyday events, headlines from the newspapers, various blogs, websites, and conversations. They talk about films, TV series, and radio and TV shows. Even though the stories are local, they are authentic and relevant to any country in transition. The idea of the creators was that during a regular week at work the characters would humorously discuss current events to make viewers laugh while stimulating them to reflect on the issues raised.
http://youtu.be/rhISaygDjnk 5
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WANNABES8 x 30 minutesyear of production 1992/1993
This humorous series was filmed at the beginning of the 1990s and consists of an array of televised jokes that were being retold at the time. The show’s particular charm comes from the fact that it was filmed by amateur actors including members of TV crews, editors, cameramen, etc. some of whose gags are still being retold even today.
http://youtu.be/3CZ7kzXMCEY
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NIGHTSHIFT12 x 30 minutesyear of production 2008-2011
Nightshift is an “anti-talk show” that deals with a variety of atypical and unconventional topics including, for example, UFOs, Serbian weddings and conspiracy theories, but the conversations with guests are permeated by humorous sketches in the style of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the locally well-known Surrealists - ‘Nadrealisti’.
http://youtu.be/nlmqKal3uCs 7
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THE CHARMSOF FISHING52 x 30 minutesyear of production 2000-2013
This series presents the world of sport fishing and the allure of time spent on the water. The show is a medley that includes, among other things, presentations mostly around Vojvodina of good locations for fishing, various fishing techniques, characteristics of different types of fish, etc.
http://youtu.be/h-qCYw_r6o8
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LIFESTYLE SERIES
BACK TO THE COUNTRY12 x 30 minutesyear of production 2012
Each episode follows different families who fled their urban surroundings to the countryside and completely changed their way of life. While following their everyday work in their new rustic households, viewers become acquainted with their everyday issues and problems through which they take delight in their new surroundings and the ways in which they change their cultural code. In the search for a better, more secure and more peaceful life, each of these families is a new story about moving to the country and the struggle to bring people in harmony with nature. The series was filmed in villages throughout the Plain of Vojvodina, including Ruski Krstur, Bački Monoštor, Turija, Vrbas, Radnici, and Radojev, among others.
http://youtu.be/MRFCVWF-nSc 9
LIFESTYLE SERIES
AN ORTHODOX PRIMER65 x 15year of production 1991-1998
This educational series presents the basics of the Orthodox creed as well as church life, both secular and in the monasteries. It offers educational information useful to believers as well as those who would like to learn more about Orthodoxy. Additionally, this series also introduces viewers to the rich bastion of Serbian Orthodox culture by presenting a full array of monasteries and churches along with the rich tradition of Serbian religious art.
http://youtu.be/9rc5HTXOX6E
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FIVENARRATIVES12 x 60year of production 2004-2013
This series introduces the “little” people, almost-forgotten handicrafts and people’s unusual capabilities and interests. The show presents the people of Vojvodina’s rich language, customs and culture.
http://youtu.be/Ssm1jiK5zco
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THE MONASTERIESOF FRUŠKA GORA12 x 30year of production 1991-1997
During the Turkish occupation, monks from central Serbia sought refuge on the mountain Fruska Gora where they founded around thirty monasteries. Within this 12 episode series, the wonders of 12 of these monasteries are presented in an informative and engaging way. These are: Novo Hopovo, Velika Remeta, Ravanica, Grgeteg, Jazak, Beočin, Kuveždin, Mala Remeta, Rakovac, Fenek and Krušedol. Narrator and guide, the late serbian writer, historian and professor, member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Dejan Medaković, leads viewers through the history and beauty of these cultural and historical monuments, some of which date back to the 15th century.
http://youtu.be/Zwb9Wn7gfIY
A SLIVEROF HOPE6 x about 25 minutesyear of production 2008-2012
This documentary series deals with people who stand firm and try to live full lives despite illnesses or physical handicaps. A fourteen-year-old boy suffering from muscular atrophy, a girl with cerebral palsy, an engineer struggling with lime disease and other protagonists in this series full of difficulties and charged emotions endure by resisting them through hope and optimism.
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THE EMPEROR OF THE MOUNTAIN25 minutesyear of production 2012
After 30 years, the Fruška Gora National Park has returned the European deer to Fruška Gora, the mountain jewel of Vojvodina. A camera crew from TV Vojvodina followed the biological cycle of this noble creature known as the Emperor of the Mountain for a full year through a variety of seasons. Love is born and the mountain begins to breathe and sing. The Emperor of the Mountain, Fruška Gora and humankind become symbolic participants in this rich and touching story of an entire ecological system.
http://youtu.be/2oX3ucGxhHk
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KRUŠEDOL57.59 minutesyear of production 2009
The Monastery of Krušedol was founded at the beginning of the 16th century by Đorđe Branković of the last Serbian medieval dynasty, and is still active today. This docudrama tells the story of the last members of the Branković dynasty and their role in the region’s secular and spiritual life. At the same time, it bears witness to the fall, bondage, longing, rapture, liberation and sanctity which still echoes today in the Serbian spirit and at the crossroads of the centuries. It conjures up the strength of its founders who were members of the aristocratic Branković family— Stefan, Đorđe, Jovan and Angelina, who were later canonized as Saint Stefan the Blind, Saint Maxim, Saint Despot Jovan, and Saint Angelina of Serbia.
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LIFE IS A WONDERFULDREAM
51 minutesyear of production 2009
This film presents the life and painterly dreams of Paja Jovanović, a celebrated representative of academic realism in Serbia, from his hometown of Vršac, to Belgrade and Vienna. He painted a large number of portraits and genre scenes with ethnic motifs as well as historical compositions with ethnic themes. In this film art historians, painters, writers, gallery curators and others discuss this great artist.
FRAGMENTSFROM THELIFE OF J.M.
26 minutesyear of production 2012
The story of Jica Macu, the fabricator of flutes from Eastern Serbia, who continued his family’s tradition of making this folk instrument. He claims that every flute he makes has the sound of a particular songbird in nature. Apart from fabricating flutes, he also performs with his instruments at various festivals of ethnic music.
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BAROQUEMUSIC28 minutesyear of production 2008
The Baroque and Baroque music of the long ago era of the 17th and 18th centuries interweave unusual instruments and strange sounds and lead us through the world of musical history, both Serbian and European. This series was produced in the style of a docudrama. The splendor of Baroque music and its beginnings mark the emergence of a new and, up until then, never-before-seen form—opera. The human voice becomes the main source of artistic pleasure, and a number of instruments which had undergone various transformations during the preceding period, slowly begin to resemble those that we know today.
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OLD HAGANUJKA26.33 minutesyear of production 2007
At the beginning of the 20th century, the most famous woman in the southern Banat region of Vojvodina was the practitioner of witchcraft who poisoned people, Anujka Dee Pištone, better known as old hag Anujka. Numerous tales rife with mystery and fear were spun about her because the “business” she practiced was that of age old Balkan and Wallachian magic. Truth, legend and backward folk traditions and way of life placed this Balkan woman among the most infamous serial killers of the 20th century.
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THE DANUBEGARDIAN26.44 minutesyear of production 2011
Renato Grbić is a fisherman on the Danube and one of the rare people in Belgrade who live from fishing and this river. Fate has bequeathed him a big heart and a strange destiny. This Belgrade fisherman has until now rescued 23 people from the Danube who tried to commit suicide. This is a story about the self-sacrifice of someone from the outskirts of a metropolis and about an enormous challenge for all of us—the struggle for life. It’s about a man who is on guard to prevent lost and desperate souls from ending their lives in the Danube.
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THE MOLE
23 minutesyear of production 2011
Incredibly colorful tales and urban legends have been spun about what is hidden in the underground corridors of the Petrovaradin Fortress and, in particular, about things that have never seen the light or been properly investigated. There is even one about a basilisk hiding away somewhere down below. There are many among the residents of Novi Sad who for a variety of reasons are willing to take matters into their own hands and set off on an adventure much like Indiana Jones, taking on the risk of such a campaign but without proper equipment. One of them is Zoltan Sabadi, also known as Kina, a young man who headed underground more than 20 years ago solely for the purpose of finding treasure, which was also the subject of urban legend.
