It is comical that this film pretends to be biographical, but is full of historical falsehoods.
For example: Dr Slavka Mihajlovic never worked in a mental hospital but in surgery department where she saved the lives of Serbian soldiers. During the Great War, she was not married because her medical skills were desperately needed for the wounded and the victims. She married only after the Great War, so she could not cheat her husband as the movie claims.
For example: Dr Subotic and his colleagues were not in Belgrade at all, since he already organized the Red Cross in Corfu in 1916.
The whole style of the drama is somehow humiliating for the Serbian people. We are all portrayed as primitives, prostitutes, lunatics and psychotics. The only nice person in the movie is the Danish lady.
Psychologically, for every nation to develop properly, especially younger people, they must have positive models for identification. And this film is failing them. Also, the main male character, who is usually a symbol of health and livelihood, is shown here as the opposite. It's strange that movies about Western heroes dying from old age and dementia are not usually made. What is the purpose of this, we are wondering?
Women's characters are also devalued without considering historical truths. Noble, sophisticated, humane and patriotic in the most beautiful way Dr. Slavka Mihajlovic was portrayed as a rough and free revolutionary and adulteress at a time when she was not married at all. Fineness is reserved only for the western doctors - with whom she, among others, went to the same school. The point is that we also had fine, noble and humane young doctors and heroines. And this film just denies them. The consequences for the mental health of younger generations can be very detrimental and destructive if all positive models for identification are removed by counterfeits.
This movie is an example of the brutal abuse of so-called Artistic freedoms.
For example: Dr Slavka Mihajlovic never worked in a mental hospital but in surgery department where she saved the lives of Serbian soldiers. During the Great War, she was not married because her medical skills were desperately needed for the wounded and the victims. She married only after the Great War, so she could not cheat her husband as the movie claims.
For example: Dr Subotic and his colleagues were not in Belgrade at all, since he already organized the Red Cross in Corfu in 1916.
The whole style of the drama is somehow humiliating for the Serbian people. We are all portrayed as primitives, prostitutes, lunatics and psychotics. The only nice person in the movie is the Danish lady.
Psychologically, for every nation to develop properly, especially younger people, they must have positive models for identification. And this film is failing them. Also, the main male character, who is usually a symbol of health and livelihood, is shown here as the opposite. It's strange that movies about Western heroes dying from old age and dementia are not usually made. What is the purpose of this, we are wondering?
Women's characters are also devalued without considering historical truths. Noble, sophisticated, humane and patriotic in the most beautiful way Dr. Slavka Mihajlovic was portrayed as a rough and free revolutionary and adulteress at a time when she was not married at all. Fineness is reserved only for the western doctors - with whom she, among others, went to the same school. The point is that we also had fine, noble and humane young doctors and heroines. And this film just denies them. The consequences for the mental health of younger generations can be very detrimental and destructive if all positive models for identification are removed by counterfeits.
This movie is an example of the brutal abuse of so-called Artistic freedoms.
