De Niro, while he was younger, also spent some time in Serbia travelling by hitchhike and met serbian way of life, I suppose, more then average tourist would do.
Posted on 09/27/2008 4:16:12 PM PDT by BabaYaga
26 September 2008 Belgrade _ Movie star Robert de Niro said he might invest in Serbia’s film industry.
De Niro met Serbia’s President Boris Tadic who is in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting, gathering support for Belgrade’s bid to seek the World Court’s opinion on the legality of Kosovo’s independence.
“We’ve met and talked about making movies in Serbia, in studios they have there. We generally talked about a possible future cooperation, because you never know,” de Niro said.
Tadic also met representatives of Sallyport, DreamWorks and Coppola movie companies.
De Niro added he remembered hitch-hiking through Serbia and recalled Belgrade as an “excellent city”.
“I’m sure it is the same now, if not better. I remember being in Belgrade. It was great,” he said.
De Niro also recalled being a guest at the Belgrade International Film Festival, FEST. He named his daughter Drina, the same name as the river running along the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He reiterated he was a great fan of Serbia’s most successful best tennis player Novak Djokovic.
“Maybe I’m partly a Serb… some of my ancestors,” de Niro, who is of Italian origin, said jokingly, adding “Djokovic is a great kid”.
De Niro has often been seen in Djokovic’s VIP box supporting the world’s third best ranked tennis player during his US Open tournament matches.
De Niro, while he was younger, also spent some time in Serbia travelling by hitchhike and met serbian way of life, I suppose, more then average tourist would do.
Drina the river I think is quite polluted now. Kudos if he can do a movie in Serbia. Nice things can happen in nice places.
I’ve heard it’s going to be a radical departure from the work he usually does. De Niro is planning a gritty crime drama where he plays either a gangster or a cop.
Cool .... and he can open an eastern European version of Tribeca Grill there or a Nobu.
Drina the river I think is quite polluted now
hmm, not quite...it sure is not like some half a century ago, but it is not so much poluted neither. There are a lot of activities on the river in spring and summer like some fishing, sport, art camps or rafting races organized from both sides of the river - in Republika Srpska and Serbia also. Some images:
My favourite :-).
You can get wider picture maybe here
LOL
DeNiro is in the tank for Hussien. Be wary of his work.
≤}B^)
:-)
I didn`t know that...
lol...unfortunately it`s not mine, but belongs to the kayak club - the second one - first one was taken by the river some years ago...
CNN got wind of the idea and warned their people to get out of the tower and go elsewhere.
They didn't warn any of the non-CNN affiliated civilians working there.
The result was that all those civilians got killed.
I've always felt that was an outcome that was just wrong ~
Can DeNiro be counted on to deal harshly with his little friends in CNN or is he going to make more Leftwingtard Pro-Islamofascist propaganda.
Slovenia and Croatia are doing really well with tourism, Serbia is on it's way, and when Bosnia and Albania enter the 20th (forget about the 21st) century, there's lots of promise there too.
That’s nearly all of H’wood scum
Not a big surprise. The old Yugoslavia was always a major filming location back in the 1960’s-early 1980’s. The films, Kelly’s Heroes, Fiddler on the Roof, Sophie’s Choice, Murder on the Orient Express were all made there, among many others.
Thanks for ping, BabaYaga:)
I’m going to start working on a new documentary in Belgrade near the later part of October. I don’t want to meet Tadic though :-)
most areas of ex-Yugoslavia have breath-taking scenic areas
Yes, and literally also, for the thousands of unfortunates. Some weeks ago I read one of the comments on YT that goes like:
We Yugoslavs are good people from the beautiful country; of course we love each other. The only flaw we have is that we use to kill each other from time to time.
So, this is love (???):
a) true,
b) untrue.
I recently found some nice photos of the country that I was born in, although I don`t remember much (and I lived in four countries without leaving my hometown for longer); with the hardest period in the last decade of XX century, especially for the people from the mixed marriages.
Of course the political indoctrination of poster`s avatar (Tito) should be ignored, because it is very dangerous and manipulative simbol for the future relations - for the "political" Yugoslavs it is ideological symbol and for the "emotional" Yugoslavs it`s "south-Slavs union" and also "good old days of peace" symbol.
Among the several "New Yugoslavia" movements, which are mostley non-political and ideological non- and anti-communistic groups, I found some communistic coloured that again (!) claim partisan resistance as their own which is again historical revisionism.
Like the liberal and NGO extremism ("left wing" that is painted with many colours, but under cover is purely fascistic - my opinion) and nationalistic extremisms they have many things in common then not - two faces of the same coin; they are using one another`s existance while their actions against each others makes the living almost unbearable in newly formend democracies like under some low-grade psychological war
that creates the new houses for the new schizophrenic nations torn between EU non-national and non-religious "standards" (which Yugoslavia, paradoxally, was, with the effect of "brotherhood & unity" PTSD) and that missing link of national states.
Capisci? :-/
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