There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People

There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People

78 mins | Documentary | April 25, 2013

From 1977 to 1991 an image of Slovenia as a green, demilitarised and peaceful country of diligent people reigned in Yugoslavia, a country where differences are not only allowed, but also desired. This period ends with a ten-day war, when the identity turns from peacefulness, modesty and diligence into courage and a fighting spirit. The film documents the changes in Slovenia and its inhabitants, which have in recent years brought us to a completely different understanding of national identity, different from the one which was true in Slovenia as well as abroad twenty years ago.

There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People

78 mins | Documentary | April 25, 2013

There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
From 1977 to 1991 an image of Slovenia as a green, demilitarised and peaceful country of diligent people reigned in Yugoslavia, a country where differences are not only allowed, but also desired. This period ends with a ten-day war, when the identity turns from peacefulness, modesty and diligence into courage and a fighting spirit. The film documents the changes in Slovenia and its inhabitants, which have in recent years brought us to a completely different understanding of national identity, different from the one which was true in Slovenia as well as abroad twenty years ago.
Producers Sever & Sever
Original title Nekoč je bila dežela pridnih
Directors Urša Menart
Writers Jani Sever

Cast

Borut Mehle

as Self

Igor Vidmar

as Self

Jani Bavcer

as Self

Jernej Repovš

as Self

Dušan Mandić

as Self

Miša Molk

as Self

Zdravko Dusa

as Self

Aleš Klinar

as Self

Tone Fornezzi

as Self

Janez Hočevar

as Self

Marko Pogačnik

as Self

Leon Magdalenc

as Self

Vital Verlič

as Self

Marko Vičič

as Self

Veljko Rus

as Self

Slavoj Žižek

as Self (archive footage)

Mojca Dobnikar

as Self (archive footage)

Mladen Petretič

as Self (archive footage)