TRUMPETS’ REPUBLIC
(La Repubblica delle Trombe)
Italy, documentary, 2006; 48 min
In Serbian with English sub-titles

Directed by: Stefano Missio
Written by: Alessandro Gori
Producer/s: Alessandro Gori and Stefano Missio
Camera: Stefano Missio

 

Synopsis:
Gvozden Rosic, chief of a small orchestra in Guca, a small rural village in the heart of Serbia, trains for the largest brass competition in Europe. Used to launch attacks during wartime, the trumpet has since lost its military significance to become an emotional component in the lives of the Serbian people; it is played when children are born, when people move to a new house, and also escorts the deceased on their final journey. In recent years, Serbia has been trying to recover from the spiral of violence of the 1990s, the long international embargo, NATO’s bombing and the ensuing economic depression. Guca and the trumpet symbolize Serbia’s reaction to this latest set of adversities, and all others this country has faced throughout history.

Festivals and Awards:
2008 Reel Music Festival, Portland, U.S.A.
2008 International Short & Independent Film Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh
2008 Festival Internacional de Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
2008 Skopje International Film Festival, Macedonia
2008 Documentary Film Festival, Kraków, Poland
2008 International Documentary Film Festival “Cronograf”, Chişinău, Moldova
2008 Days of Ethnographic Film, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007 International Documentary Drama Film Festival Russia: - Special prize for talent
2006 Trieste Film Festival
2006 Mediterraneo Film Festival, Sardinia 2006


Director Stefano Missio
Born in Udine in 1972, Stefano studied cinema at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated in 1997 from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Since then he has made various documentaries in film and digital video. In 2000 he became the director of www.ildocumentario.it, an internet web site about documentary film in Italy. His last work, “Che Guevara - The body and the legend” was broadcast on television in 12 countries. He lives and works in Paris.

Screenwriter Alessandro Gori
Born in Udine (Italy) in 1970, he graduated from the “Ca’ Foscari” University in Venice and subsequently worked as a freelance journalist writing about international politics, European affairs, the Balkans, former Soviet world, Latin America, minority issues, and cinema. Starting in 1991 he travelled regularly to the Balkans and especially to Serbia which led him to collaborate on the translation into Italian of the first travel guide to Serbia (Serbia a portata di mano / Serbia in your hands).

He is currently writing a PhD thesis at the “Universitat de Barcelona” about Brass orchestras’ tradition in the Balkans and their importance in Serbian cultural identity in recent years.


Select Filmography:
Che Guevara – The body and the legend (Italy, 2007)
Il Ponte (Italy, 2005)
North of Rome, East of Milan (Italy, 2000)
We Are Full Up (Italy, 1998)
Quando l’Italia non era un paese povero (Italy, 1997)

DVD Source:
Stefano Missio
Alessandro Gori
alessandrogori@gmail.com