This unique documentary film is about Serbia, its history, art and culturet hrough centuries.  It is also about Belgrade, “The White City”, onthe co nfluence of two great rivers and the meeting place of mankind’s greatest civilizations.

  Produced in color, this highly educational video is an exciting blend of museum slides and moving pictures with a likely narration.  It has been shown several times n educational New York channel and on channel America.

Concept, text and illustration: by Donya Schimansky, MA, MLS

Filmed and edited: by Dr. Ljubo Vujovic

Narrated: by Mary Gaydos, MLS

Highlights of this video:

1. Archeological findings from the Danube River Basin reaching to 6,000 years B.C.
2. Ancient Greek and Roman Art treasures in Serbia.
3. Medieval history of Serbia royalty as patrons of the arts.
4. Serbian medieval art treasures including Kosovo – a spiritual and cultural center of all Serbs for the past ten centuries.  The Battle of Kosovo was in 1389.
5. Arrival of Ottoman Turks in the Balkan.  Siege of Belgrade by the Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in 1521, shown by contemporary 16^th century Turkish miniatures.
6. Uprising against Ottoman Turks in 19^th century and re-establishing of Serbian Kingdom.

Serbia, in the Balkan Peninsula, at the crossroad between East and West, has imprinted on it’s soil the witness of a rich civilization.  For centuries Serbs fought against foreign invaders to keep Serbian land that flourished in the Middle Ages under Nemanjic dynasty.  In 1389 the Serbian Army met, at the Kosovo Field, the Ottoman Turks invaders, who according to contemporary sources, counted  ten times more soldiers than the Serbian Army.  In these unbalanced confrontations of military forces, Serbs lost the battle.  Prince Lazar was decapitated by the Turks and Sultan Murat was killed by the Serbian hero Milos Obilic.  But the Serbian spirit was never defeated.  Kosovo Battle gave the Serbs the spiritual and moral strength to fight the Infideles, who came from Asia.

Serbs also defended the Christian Europe against the Ottoman Turks.  They built a defensive border, called “Military Frontier” at the South-East border of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy which extended a thousand miles from the Adriatic Coast and Lika Region to Voyvodina – the northern part of Yugoslavia.  For their bravery, Serbs were given land by the Austrian Empress.

Concept, text and illustration: by Donya Schimansky, MA, MLS

Filmed and edited: by Dr. Ljubo Vujovic

Narrated: by Mary Gaydos, MLS