"Long Road to war"

Serbian Embassy in Canberra will Commemorate WWI from 14 to 16. September and the Ambassador HE Miroljub Petrovic has told us about an interesting cultural program planned at The Australian War Memorial. As a part of WWI Commemoration in Canberra "The Long Road to War" - Feature-length documentary about the origins of WWI will be shown. We have talked to Mr Skundric.

Milos Skundric Source: Courtesy of Milos Skundric

Coming from a country that lost over 20% of its population in the Great War, the Serbian director Miloš Škundrić says he was shocked to learn how little he and his generation knew about the reason behind this “seminal catastrophe of the 20^th century”.

“Although there were many books on what the historians take for one-of-the-most-important-topics-ever, it was surprising to me that the origins of the war have been subject to almost no film at all over the past 100 years. Granted, the subject was mostly incorporated into the documentaries that cover the war itself and briefly so, or confined only to 1914."

"But you can’t really understand why the killing of an heir by his subject should spark a world war, if you don’t go further back into the past, can you? These were the reasons for this film, and I had set the goals high, in terms of both production quality and historical authenticity."

The film "The Long Road to War" is mostly in English, with some German, French, and Russian spoken by the historians.