The Weight of Chains
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| Directed by | Boris Malagurski |
| Produced by | Boris Malagurski |
| Screenplay by | Boris Malagurski |
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Michel Chossudovsky Lewis MacKenzie Vlade Divac John Perkins Michael Parenti Scott Taylor Jože Mencinger James Bissett John Bosnitch Branislav Lečić Škabo Srđa Trifković Slobodan Samardžić |
| Music by | Novo Sekulović Jasna Đuran Kevin Macleod |
| Edited by | Boris Malagurski Marko Janković Anastasia Trofimova |
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| Distributed by | Journeyman Pictures (Worldwide) |
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124 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English, Serbian |
| Budget | $21,850 |
The Weight of Chains is a 2010 Canadian documentary film directed by Boris Malagurski. The film argues that the breakup of Yugoslavia was "orchestrated by Western powers in furtherance of imperial ambitions", according to the filmmaker, it also presents stories of "good people in evil times". It was released on December 17, 2010. Since 2012, the film has been distributed by Journeyman Pictures. The sequel, The Weight of Chains 2, was released on November 20, 2014.
The film was sponsored by Serbian diaspora community organizations, the Centre for Research on Globalization, and private individuals amongst others.
The film uses re-compiled archival footage extensively, which was provided at no cost by Radio Television Serbia.
The film provides a background history of Yugoslavia, from the medieval Battle of Kosovo to the 1912 incorporation of Kosovo into the Kingdom of Serbia and then to the formation of Josip Broz Tito's Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after World War II. It discusses the persecution of Kosovo Serbs after World War II, as well as alleged plans by Nationalists to create an ethnically pure Greater Albania.
The film claims that U.S. interests in Yugoslavia promoted "a market-oriented Yugoslav economic structure" through the National Endowment for Democracy, and the G17 Plus as part of a policy of "privatization through liquidation" which increased ethnic tensions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Western nations, both openly diplomatically and covertly militarily, supported separatist groups and encouraged conflict so that NATO could be installed as peacekeepers for their own interests. A cigarette factory that was bombed by NATO was later bought by Philip Morris, which the film presents as an example, that the purpose of the war was economic colonization of the country.
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