{"id":42694,"date":"2026-06-04T10:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/looks.film\/?p=42694"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:56:15","slug":"tito-man-who-was-yugoslavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looks.film\/en\/tito-man-who-was-yugoslavia\/","title":{"rendered":"TITO.THE MAN WHO WAS YUGOSLAVIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” full_height=”yes” css_animation=”none” parallax=”content-moving-fade” parallax_image=”42696″ css=”.vc_custom_1780561203850{background-position: center;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” disable_custom_paddings_mobile=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1591600707685{padding-top: 35px !important;}”][vc_column width=”2\/3″ disable_custom_paddings_mobile=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1591600711648{padding-left: 70px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]2026 | Documentary Series | 3\u00d730′ \/ 6\u00d730′ \/ 1\u00d790′[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

TITO. THE MAN WHO WAS YUGOSLAVIA<\/span><\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1592215524041{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”2\/3″ disable_custom_paddings_mobile=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1588327151504{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 70px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]1991 marks the beginning of the Yugoslav wars between ethnic groups that were once all part of Yugoslavia. More than 200,000 people died in years of bloody clashes over territory and \u201cethnic cleanliness\u201c and over a million left their homes. How could this happen?<\/p>\n

In world history and politics, there is not just one truth. But one thing is undisputed: Josip Broz \u2013 “Tito” – was a man who had steered the destiny of the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia since the end of the Second World War and united its different ethnic groups until his death in 1980.<\/p>\n

The series resembles a journey of discovery and makes use of a collective \u201cwe\u201d-perspective \u2013 composed by a diverse group of contributors, mostly ex-Yugoslavs, among them political scientist Dejan Jovi\u0107, performance artist Marina Abramovi\u0107, historian and biographer Jo\u017ee Pirjevec, film director Rajko Grli\u0107, as well as time witnesses like the former partisan Ivan Mi\u0161kovi\u0107 or the son of Tito\u2019s closest confidant Aleksandar Rankovi\u0107: Slobodan Rankovi\u0107.<\/p>\n

All contributors are driven by the question of who this man, Tito, really was. This man who has deeply impacted their lives and identities; who was once a partisan leader who took on Hitler; who broke away from his political mentor Joseph Stalin and helped Yugoslavia to achieve its very own position within the conflict between the bloc states; who over the ye\u00adars became a dictator who lost sight of the welfare of his people \u2013 and who, after all, many people today are deeply nostalgic about.<\/p>\n

With a mixture of extensive archive material, and both personal remembrance and expert analyses, the series delves into the eventful life of a man who knew how to glorify himself, and punches holes in the fa\u00e7ade that Tito used to skillfully maintain.<\/p>\n

By examining the figure of Tito within a unique historical setting \u2013 from the First World War to the Cold War \u2013 the series also reveals the mechanics of his authoritarian rule and and his becoming one with Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n

Photo: LOOKSfilm\/Bianca Domula\/Muzej Jugoslavije\/AI-assisted<\/p>\n

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\nBirgit Rasch
\nPetra Gruber
\nKatarzyna Ozga
\nRegina Bouchehri
\nGunnar Dedio<\/p>\n

A production by LOOKSfilm<\/b><\/p>\n

In co-production with rbb and ORF<\/strong><\/p>\n

Showrunner<\/strong>
\nCaroline Schaper<\/p>\n

Written & directed by<\/strong>
\nSasha Djurkovic<\/p>\n

Commissioning Editors
\n<\/strong>Dagmar Mielke (rbb)
\nCaroline Haidacher (ORF)
\nViktoria Tatschl (ORF)<\/p>\n

Line Producer<\/strong>
\nPaul Israel<\/p>\n

Funding
\n<\/strong>Mitteldeutsche Medienf\u00f6rderung, German Motion Picture Fund, Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung f\u00fcr Kultur und Medien, Creative Europe MEDIA, Fernsehfonds Austria[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” full_height=”yes”][vc_column disable_custom_paddings_mobile=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1592215547923{padding-left: 70px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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