Famous Serbian actor Miloš Biković will lead the cast in the new film by Serbian director Slobodan Šijan.
Filming of the film "Be God with us", by the author of the cult works "Who's singing there", "Marathon runners run the lap of honor" and "Stranger vs. Strangler", began on December 22, and will continue in early 2020 at several locations in country and abroad.
It is a film about Boško Tokin (1894-1953), a visual artist and director of the first Serbian avant-garde film, based on a script by Biljana Maksić, Vladimir Mančić and Šijan himself.
Boška is portrayed by Miloš Biković, and one of the important roles in the film went to Croatian actor Goran Bogdan.
Boško Tokin was a pioneer of film criticism in ex-Yu areas and beyond.
Tokin's first film review was published in the newspaper "Progres", and it caused outrage among the public, who thought it was a text about a "Vašar attraction". Tokin, however, was much more informed than the audience, because he was already familiar with Charlie Chaplin's films.
Already in the 20s of the last century, he noticed that 90 percent of American films end happily, which he called "hellish optimism", and in 1920 he published an essay on film aesthetics in France.
He belonged to the circle of avant-garde artists and was one of the co-authors of the Zenitism Manifesto.
All his life he dealt with the biggest phenomena of the 20th century - film and sports, but at one time he was also completely marginalized, and after the Second World War he ended up in prison for three years.
Tokin was also the author of the play "Mister Nadezhda", the first story in this region about a transvestite, but it was not performed even though it was supposed to be staged in three theaters.
He also published the novel "Terazije" in 1932, and in 1940 his History of Film Art was published.
Tokin is also the author of the first film lexicon in 1952, but he died before it was published (1953).
It was rediscovered only by Duško Stojanović who wrote the book "Boško Tokin Pioneer of Film".
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