Robert Nemeček, a musician and longtime editor of film programs on several televisions, died in Belgrade at the age of 75, his friends confirmed.
As a great lover and connoisseur of film, Nemeček was the film editor of RTS, B92, Pink and the former Politika during the nineties and XNUMXs, where he completely changed the concept of film and serial programming, the media write.
He is responsible for the first broadcasts in Serbia of some of the most popular modern series and films in history - from The Sopranos, across The Simpsons i Friends. Dossier X.
"Dear Robbie, you changed my life like few others," wrote Dimitrije Vojinov, a well-known screenwriter, on social networks.
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He was born in 1949 in Belgrade, he inherited his love for comics from his father, and very early on for movies.
"That was influenced by the Cinematheque, which was around the corner... I was fascinated by old, even silent films," Nemeček said earlier.
The media also describe him as the progenitor of progressive rock in Serbia.
He was also the founder and leader of the group Pop Mašina, with whom he released two studio albums - Acid i On the light source, as well as a live one, called Road to the Sun.
He previously played in the bands Dogovor 1804 and Gentlemen.
"Travel in peace, dear friend", were the words with which musician Srđan Gile Gojković from the group Električni Orgasam said goodbye to Nemeček.
The place and time of the funeral will be announced later.
Controlled piracy and 'ugly yellow men'
After finishing the army, Nemeček went to London, and returned to Belgrade in 1988 and became an editor at Politika TV.
In an interview with Weekly, he talked about how he managed films and series during the nineties, when FR Yugoslavia was under United Nations sanctions.
Other television stations played films from video clubs, and he engaged in "controlled piracy" with the help of laser discs from America.
"At that time, there was a difference of six months between the film premiere in America and Europe, and the laserdisc came out six months later."
So it happened that film lovers in Serbia were among the first to see it Foresta Gampa, the 1994 hit movie starring Tom Hanks.
From Politika, he goes to Pink, where they were broadcast The Sopranos, Dossier X i The Simpsons.
“I knew they were The Simpsons very popular, but I also knew that before the war, TV Sarajevo tried to broadcast and that they failed with it - I find the episodes they played and realized that the translation was disastrous.
"I tell that to Željko (Mitrović, the owner of Pink), and Milica Mitrović (wife of Željko Mitrović) was saying 'who wants to watch these ugly yellow people?'"
Broadcasting The Simpsons in Serbia, he says, was personally approved by Matt Groening, the author of the series.
Dossier X was during that time broadcast here almost in parallel with that in America.
"In the last two series, the episode was broadcast on Saturday in America, and we broadcast it on Monday - Europe couldn't even dream of it.
"It also happened that they finish the episode, send it by DHL and in the meantime decide to change the ending and send 'don't accidentally play what we sent you the other day, but this final version,'" Nemeček told Nedeljnik.
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