Films by Dragan von Petrovic

Germany 2012, 86 min
by Lena Mueller, Dragan von Petrovic

Once he was King, now he is invisible. In this Balkan tragicomical documentary set in West-Berlin, the young cameraman Vuk from Belgrade embarks on the trail of his uncle Dragan Wende who used to be the street king of West-Berlin’s 1970s hedonistic disco scene. Being Yugoslav, he also profited from the Berlin Wall. Today, Vuk’s uncle is an aged bordello doorman who lives off social welfare and wants the Wall back.Seen through his nephew’s eyes, a microcosm of underdogs and their survival strateg