SOUTH BY SOUTHEAST

Playing herself in a thriller full of unexpected twists, the famous Serbian actress Sonja Savić reports during a brief visit to Belgrade that her daughter Sofi a has been kidnapped. But when questioned by Inspector Despotović, the increasingly hysterical star suddenly denies her former allegations, claiming she doesn’t even have a daughter. The chief of the secret police discreetly informs the inspector that the shadowy child is the illegitimate daughter of the Serbian foreign minister. Whereas the latter is adamant that the whole affair is a set-up aimed at destroying his reputation… In a film combining countless cinematic citations with references to the political violence which has left its mark on recent Serbian history, the title is not the only allusion to Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST.