ZG80

1989, Yugoslavia not yet come apart. A group of Dinamo supporters from Zagreb decide to go to Belgrade for the match against Red Star. They belong to the supporters' group known as the Bad Blue Boys. In Belgrade they come up against the home side's supporters and it moves from the terraces into the street. Igor Šeregi's film tells what came before Metastases and dramatises the supporter clashes of those days. Comedy and violence are folded together here. The telling does not put either side in the right; the young men on both sides are the same as each other, and each believes he is part of something. The film's real subject is not football but how anger found its channel in a country coming apart. Rene Bitorajac takes one of the leads.