Lipanjska gibanja (1969) - full transcript
The film speaks of student demonstrations in Belgrade, 1969 and of the critical quality, enthusiasm and discipline of this form of protest. It was the most powerful public criticism of ''red bourgeoisie'' - members of communist apparatus, who suppressed creativity and affirmation of new generations throughout Eastern block.
NEOPLANTA FILM
JUNE TURMOIL
cinematography
director
And later came Veljko Vlahović,
Miloš Minić and Branko Pešić.
They demanded that the students
retreat peacefully to the campus
in order to reach an agreement
to hold peaceful demonstrations there,
so that we wouldn't go to the
Marx and Engels Square at all.
He also demanded that
a certain number of students retreat...
...to retreat and agree
about the demonstrations.
And we retreated there
under that tree...
...and we reached
an agreement.
That's what happened,
although some where not for retreat,
most of us were
for the students to go back.
I went with Miloš Minić to
stop the police and the students.
First we stopped the students
and then we stopped the police,
which we did with great effort,
and even comrade Minić himself
suffered a few blows to the head
with a policeman's baton.
A girl, who is to be
a mother one day
and to be able
to raise her own children,
should not have been,
from their side, treated like that.
Two of them holding her
while the third beats her
on the breasts with a baton.
They told us like:
'You whores, if you
bear children similar to you,
better kill yourselves,
because we don't need your kind.'
One of the students
was carrying a girl,
and they didn't want to beat him,
they beat that girl.
If... if slogans
don't prove anything, like:
'Long live socialism',
'With Tito we walk',
etc., then...
One of the greatest offences for us
was when we were told to remove
the slogans which we carried
when we surrounded the campus,
and amongst the slogans and banners
there were pictures of Tito, Lenin, flags.
However, he beat me so much
but I only blame myself
and accuse myself
of begging him in the first place.
I put my hands together in prayer,
and beg him not to beat me on the belly,
to beat me
on the back instead,
I think it would have been easier
for me to whistand the blows there.
He paid no attention to that.
At that moment, a colleague came
and said: 'Don't beat her, beat me.'
Immediately two men showed up
and started beating him.
We are going to
talk here all night,
we are going to sing,
we are going to recite,
and we are not going to
be provoked by anyone!
But at the same time,
those who intend to provoke us,
they should know,
we are staying here
because of dignity
and not because of fear!
'Red University - Karl Marx'
'Down with the
dukes of socialism'
Revolutionary tune.
'Who is responsible for
the economy chaos?'
'Searching for
solution to unemployment'
If there were no winds, spiders
would weave a web all over the sky!
Students - workers,
students - workers!
They proclaim that national problem
is the main problem in our country.
The main problem in this country
is a social problem!
The abyss of hell threatens in vain,
the fire of thunder is in vain.
Now let everything above us
be carried away by the storm.
The rock cracks, the oak breaks,
let the ground shake.
We stand steadfastly like cliffs;
Let the traitor of his homeland be damned!
Let me say this... A few moments ago,
I was with comrade Vitomir Teofilović
in the printing press office 'Glas'.
I was told that the head office
of 'Student' is under siege,
so we went there
to see what was happening.
There we found fifty policemen
and an armed vehicle,
and a few other policemen...
Boo, boo!
I beg you not to let yourselves
be provoked by this any more.
We will do everything we can
to respond to this brutal attack
of censorship and the police.
- But let...
- For how long!?
We continue our strike.
If they're taking away our 'Student',
they still can't take away our
hectographs based in our cellars.
'We question the trustworthiness
of the political leaders.'
Let me quote Karl Marx
and his opinion on the freedom
of the press and censorship.
'Just like everyone learns
how to read and write,
everyone must be allowed
to read and write!'
Certainly, revolutionary goverment
is the despotism of freedom!
Freedom... against tyranny!
All the signs of a false sensitiveness
seem to me like sighs
flying towards England and Austria.
However, not being satisfied
by disarming the force of the people.
they are trying to poison the holiest
sources of its power by vice.
It is the most cunning,
the most dangerous
and the most hideous attack
on freedom.
Vice is Cain's mark of aristocratism!
In a republic, vice is not only moral,
but also political crime!
A corrupted man
is a political enemy of freedom!
That's right!
You will understand my words
if you just think of the people
who used to live in attics, and now
ride in carriages and practice lechery
with former marchionesses
and baronesses!
Steva, Steva!
When we watch...
...how the legislators boast with vice
and prodigality of former courtiers,
how they make witty, pungent remarks
and emphasize their artistic tastes,
how they already acquired
some rules of posh behaviour,
when we watch these marquises
and counts of revolution gamble,
when we look at them,
with every right we can ask:
'Have they robbed the people?'
Yes, they have! Yes, they have!
There is no agreement,
no truce with those people...
No!
...for whom the Republic
represented speculation,
and the revolution a trade!
JUNE TURMOIL
cinematography
director
And later came Veljko Vlahović,
Miloš Minić and Branko Pešić.
They demanded that the students
retreat peacefully to the campus
in order to reach an agreement
to hold peaceful demonstrations there,
so that we wouldn't go to the
Marx and Engels Square at all.
He also demanded that
a certain number of students retreat...
...to retreat and agree
about the demonstrations.
And we retreated there
under that tree...
...and we reached
an agreement.
That's what happened,
although some where not for retreat,
most of us were
for the students to go back.
I went with Miloš Minić to
stop the police and the students.
First we stopped the students
and then we stopped the police,
which we did with great effort,
and even comrade Minić himself
suffered a few blows to the head
with a policeman's baton.
A girl, who is to be
a mother one day
and to be able
to raise her own children,
should not have been,
from their side, treated like that.
Two of them holding her
while the third beats her
on the breasts with a baton.
They told us like:
'You whores, if you
bear children similar to you,
better kill yourselves,
because we don't need your kind.'
One of the students
was carrying a girl,
and they didn't want to beat him,
they beat that girl.
If... if slogans
don't prove anything, like:
'Long live socialism',
'With Tito we walk',
etc., then...
One of the greatest offences for us
was when we were told to remove
the slogans which we carried
when we surrounded the campus,
and amongst the slogans and banners
there were pictures of Tito, Lenin, flags.
However, he beat me so much
but I only blame myself
and accuse myself
of begging him in the first place.
I put my hands together in prayer,
and beg him not to beat me on the belly,
to beat me
on the back instead,
I think it would have been easier
for me to whistand the blows there.
He paid no attention to that.
At that moment, a colleague came
and said: 'Don't beat her, beat me.'
Immediately two men showed up
and started beating him.
We are going to
talk here all night,
we are going to sing,
we are going to recite,
and we are not going to
be provoked by anyone!
But at the same time,
those who intend to provoke us,
they should know,
we are staying here
because of dignity
and not because of fear!
'Red University - Karl Marx'
'Down with the
dukes of socialism'
Revolutionary tune.
'Who is responsible for
the economy chaos?'
'Searching for
solution to unemployment'
If there were no winds, spiders
would weave a web all over the sky!
Students - workers,
students - workers!
They proclaim that national problem
is the main problem in our country.
The main problem in this country
is a social problem!
The abyss of hell threatens in vain,
the fire of thunder is in vain.
Now let everything above us
be carried away by the storm.
The rock cracks, the oak breaks,
let the ground shake.
We stand steadfastly like cliffs;
Let the traitor of his homeland be damned!
Let me say this... A few moments ago,
I was with comrade Vitomir Teofilović
in the printing press office 'Glas'.
I was told that the head office
of 'Student' is under siege,
so we went there
to see what was happening.
There we found fifty policemen
and an armed vehicle,
and a few other policemen...
Boo, boo!
I beg you not to let yourselves
be provoked by this any more.
We will do everything we can
to respond to this brutal attack
of censorship and the police.
- But let...
- For how long!?
We continue our strike.
If they're taking away our 'Student',
they still can't take away our
hectographs based in our cellars.
'We question the trustworthiness
of the political leaders.'
Let me quote Karl Marx
and his opinion on the freedom
of the press and censorship.
'Just like everyone learns
how to read and write,
everyone must be allowed
to read and write!'
Certainly, revolutionary goverment
is the despotism of freedom!
Freedom... against tyranny!
All the signs of a false sensitiveness
seem to me like sighs
flying towards England and Austria.
However, not being satisfied
by disarming the force of the people.
they are trying to poison the holiest
sources of its power by vice.
It is the most cunning,
the most dangerous
and the most hideous attack
on freedom.
Vice is Cain's mark of aristocratism!
In a republic, vice is not only moral,
but also political crime!
A corrupted man
is a political enemy of freedom!
That's right!
You will understand my words
if you just think of the people
who used to live in attics, and now
ride in carriages and practice lechery
with former marchionesses
and baronesses!
Steva, Steva!
When we watch...
...how the legislators boast with vice
and prodigality of former courtiers,
how they make witty, pungent remarks
and emphasize their artistic tastes,
how they already acquired
some rules of posh behaviour,
when we watch these marquises
and counts of revolution gamble,
when we look at them,
with every right we can ask:
'Have they robbed the people?'
Yes, they have! Yes, they have!
There is no agreement,
no truce with those people...
No!
...for whom the Republic
represented speculation,
and the revolution a trade!