Balkan Rules

The film looks at the hidden history of the last fifty years. Its subject is the relations between the security services. The Yugoslav, Serbian and Croatian services are all in the account. From outside these bodies appear to stand against each other. Behind the curtain, though, they are in contact. The story is built around those points of contact. Who is working for whom is never clear. In the Balkans truth and lies have long been mixed together. That confusion is old enough that pulling them apart is not easy. The film tells a fictional story. What it tells, though, looks like the truth. Political tension sets the temper of the film. Its characters are always a step behind what is happening. Branislav Lečić and Lazar Ristovski appear in the hundred and sixteen minute film, a Yugoslav production Darko Bajić finished in 1997.