Ruski konzul

Unexpected movie, to say the least.

My mother insisted we go see this film. To be honest, I wasn't too excited about it-but to please her, I agreed. Being a Serb myself, and knowing it was a Serbian production, I expected yet another story about Serbian suffering in Kosovo (a common theme). But the movie truly surprised me.

It's a story about hatred and suffering-and neither has a single face. At times, I loved both the Serb and the Albanian characters; at other times, I hated them both. The funeral scene at the end profoundly moved me. In the end, we all suffer as we bury our dead. Our minds become consumed by ideas that serve the interests of a malicious few, while it is we-ordinary people-who pay the price in blood.