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The Making of a Revolution

Directed by Katarina Rejger and Eric van den Broek.
Netherlands, 2001, video, color, 52 min.
English and Serbian with English subtitles.

Winner of the amnesty international Award in Amsterdam in 2001, The Making of the Revolution employs a simple digital camera to follow OTPOR!, the Serbian student movement that began with only a dozen members and quickly grew to a people’s army of 50,000. OTPOR! (“resistance”) took the lead in creating the nonviolent revolution that led to Slobodan Milosevic’s ultimate admission of electoral defeat and ouster in October 2000. With a diaristic voiceover narration, Rejger and van den Broek capture the strategies of the organization that claims to have been leaderless but played a major role in the eventual democratic uprising of a million people. The filmmakers use their investigation of the new Serbian government and Milosevic’s eventual imprisonment to argue for nonviolent actions as a model for global social change.

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