Synopsis:

Svetozar Botorić (1857-1916) was the owner of the Hotel Paris in downtown Belgrade. In 1911 he became the first film producer in the Balkans. He produced some 20 documentaries and 2 feature films. His most famous film is a historical essay about Kara-George, the leader of the Serbian uprising agains the Ottoman Turks in 1804. After WWII, during communist rule, his family was declared "burgeois" and therefore denied property and even forbidden from finding work. His son was sentenced to 10 years in prison and his daughter was removed from the Music Academy in Belgrade, where she was a tenured professor. She escaped to Paris and worked as a piano performer. In 1995, she gave an interview to Eric Le Roy from Centre National de la Cinematographie and the author of this film.