Part 1: Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest
Part 2: Bucharest, Krakow, Ljubljana, Prague
Part 3: Moscow, Sarajevo, Sofia, Zagreb
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The frail-looking student who on 28 June 1914 shot the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand and his Czech wife Sophie does not rest in peace: Gavril Princip is one of the many ghosts that rumble in the cultural memory of Central Europe like a nocturnal flatulence.
The polemical poster of one of the biggest theatre co-productions ever in the region
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And down at last into this lap of stone
Between four cataracts of rock: a town
Peopled by sleepy eagles, whispering only
Of the sunburnt herdsman’s hopeless ploy:
A sterile earth quickened by shards of rock
Where nothing grows, not even in his sleep,
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Welcome to Sarajevo: On Ron Haviv’s famous war photo from 1994 you can see men wearing uniforms in front of a ruined house. A fire and smoke break. Nowadays, a poster outside Sarajevo airport carries the same title, but it shows a happy family, the Sebilj Fountain in the old part of town – and a bottle of Coke: icon of a lifestyle change in the 15 years after the war?
To be found in Sarajevo and many other places in the region.
They have become almost invisible, so you need to look closely to trace them.
But they are still there, signs of a trauma to overcome.
BBC documentary (1995)