Mali romani: O vremenima kina, filma i, naročito, Zagreba

Little Novels, a book of stories by the versatile and omnipresent book, film and theater man Tahir Mujičić, with its title only seemingly seduces on the wrong track. Because the past of Zagreb, simultaneously described, recreated and created for the first time, is of novelistic momentum: each story contains an embryo, a summary of a larger, more extensive story, and all of them together form a series of more or less connected chapters about the life of one generation in Zagreb in the second half of the twentieth century and – no less – a portrait and history of the city itself.

And this generation was decisively marked by film: these stories were also captured in a way by the eye of the camera – completely faithfully and stylized with a powerful lens. Their language is authentic, lively, fast, spoken; It is bursting with slang, dialects, professional jargon, and other languages. By the life of others, which is our life.