Company: Re-Kreativno
Country: SERBIA
Section: MOVIES
Discipline: Basketball
Year pf production: 2012
Director: Gordan Matic
Editing: Marijan Rubesa
Photography: Dusan Ivanovic
Soundtrack: Rundek Cargo Trio
Actors: Vladimir Aleksic, Katarina Radivojevic, Voja Brajovic, Tamara Krcunovic, Nikola Cesner, Marko Markovic
Voice Off: Aleksandar Sasha Djordjevic, Milenko Tepic
Producer: Marko Paljic, Gordan Matic
CoProducer: Janez Kovič, Nina Radojičić
Time: 85 min
Screening: Saturday 8th December 4.15 pm Sala Donzelli

Synopsis

It is the Radivoj Korać’s story, once the best basketball player in the world and member of the FIBA Hall of Fame, top scorer of the Rome 1960 Olympic Games, Olympic Silver medalist in Mexico 1968, two times silver World medalist, a Trophy was named after him. Korać revolutionized not only Serbian and Yugoslav basketball, but also popular culture in his home land. Ha was the first real pop-star in socialist Yugoslavia, an unprecedented phenomenon. He was one of the most important promoters of Western culture in a Country locked behind the “iron curtain” and the man who brought the first record of The Beatles to Belgrade. He could get away with it because even Tito realized his importance for the international image of Yugoslavia.