"Between 1948 and 1990" "Citroen has produced 6 806 319 2cv, Dyane and Ami cars which reached a cult status worldwide." "1200 of them are still cruising around Belgrade." "...but that's only according to official statistics..." "The mouse is not here" "But where is the cat?" "It didn't ran away" "It was eaten by the mouse." "No, there are some on the other side." "That's why I choose to go this way, because of the cops." "Do you want to see how fast it can go?" "Do you?" "OK, let's give it a try!" "No, the speedometer doesn't work." "people are very curious, you know." "Whenever I stop at red lights they always ask me what this is." "I tell them it's a car." "They ask what car, I say it's a Dyana." "They ask how we make this." "I tell them we improvise, so that we can work." "It's either that or something stupid." "I go out twice a day, if I can get away from the cops." "And when the weather is bad I don't go out." "I make 1 or 2 euros per shift." "Sometimes more if I find some aluminum or some iron." "But most of the time it's 2 euros." "One for the fuel, and one for me." "Just enough to say that I'm not working for free." "I had three in total." "I sold my first Dyana two years ago when my wife had a Caesarian operation." "I really regret selling it." "Then I sold the second one when my mother drowned off the coast of Montenegro, on a boat to Italy." "She died I don't know how." "I went there, I spent all the money, but I found nothing." "That's how I sold my second Dyana..." "When I came back I bought a motorcycle." "And when I saved some money, I bought this new Dyana." "And I am not going to sell it, ever." "Why would I?" "It earns its money well, just from cardboards." "You can't make it out of every car, you know." "The best model is the old Citroen "Dyana", because her chassis remains when you take off the body." "You can't do that with any other car." "So we just make a bin in the back and it's ready for work." "We also remove the hood so that it looks more like an agricultural machine than like a car." "That way we don't need technical exams nor license plates to drive it around the city." "We are faster and more efficient that the cart-pushers." "We tour much more streets and neighbourhoods than they do." "We are thus many times faster than they are, so we ick up all the good stuff before them." "That's our goal!" "I am driving this with my mind on the wheel and on the brakes." "I only think about bringing in some food for my family, so that I don't have to go around and beg." "There is no recycling service here so we do it instead." "It wasn't really a job meant for us, but at least we can make a living out of it." "When we see a Dyana on a parking lot..." "We ask around for the owner..." "When we find him, we ask if his Dyana is for sale." "If the price is cheap, we buy it." "Then we take it home, we break it into pieces" "and we patch it up like we want." "The gearbov looks good..." "The engine is fine." "The brakes are ok..." "The clutch is working..." "The gas pedal is not bad..." "The tires are flat but we'll pump them up..." "Hello, we came for the Dyana." "OK, come in." "Sign here." "Ok, grandma." "May you spend this money in good health!" "Drive safely, son!" "Before the war we lived well, with both Serbs and Albanians." "Then one night, Albanian KLA guerillas came to our house and asked us to fight with them." "We didn't want to, so we joined the Serbs." "We fought as long as we could, but when we saw there was no end in sight, we packed up and we came to Belgrade." "We are not getting any money from anybody." "Only the Red Cross gives us ...each month... a bag of flour," "two kilos of sdgar and two litres of oil." "For my two children it wouldn't be enough, if I wasn't doing the garbage cans." "I told yod already how many fines I paid..." "That's enough!" "Stop it!" "The church will be finished soon... and we will have to move." "It's a normal thing." "There are many Romas here, they burn all sorts of things." "It makes a lot of smoke and it's bad for the church." "We know it's wrong but what can we do?" "We have nowhere else to live..." "When Tito was alive, it wasn't like this." "Today is not bad either, but it was better back then." "Where could yod sleep when Tito was alive?" "Everywhere." "Today also, but it was better then." "It's not that we are complaining, but..." "Today everybody steals." "Who's got money?" "Not even banks have money!" "One day..." "What do you mean, one day?" "!" "You are rich and I am poor?" "!" "Look at this!" "Sitting on schoolbooks..." "What's your problem?" "What's my problem?" "!" "No water, no electricity, no nothing, fuck!" "But we use them the most as power supply, so that we can have electricity like everybody else." "So that we have some light when we eat..." "At least a little bit." "I tried out many different ones but Alcatel is the best." "All the others I have to take inside a shop to recharge them." "This one I just hook it up..." "And in 10-1 5 minutes it's full." "It can last for 2 or 3 days like this..." "Better than electricity!" "I recharge a battery each time I go out, 2 or 3 times a day." "Then I take it out..." "I hook it up here and that's how I make light!" "We have some light, we can listen to music..." "With a good battery we could watch TV for 7 nights in a row." "But these old ones we find in the garbage are not so great." "And that's it!" "But on this one, the dynamo is not working, we have to pdsh it." "Help me out a little?" "We're off to school, brother!" "Where are you going?" "!" "To school!" "No, I don't regret it." "Why would I regret it?" "I decided myself." "They came one morning and asked me if I wanted to go to school." "I said I didn't." "They said ok, and they left." "I put my children to school first and foremost so that they improve their Serbian..." "But also because in the other suburbs children get money when they go to school." "Here, we've been taking our kids to school for more than a year now but we never got anything." "No shoes, no pants..." "Not even a T-shirt." "Nothing." "Only some shampoo." "So I'll stop sending my son to school." "What's the use?" "I have to give him one euro each morning." "He only gets some milk and a doughnut." "By the time he gets home, he's hungry again!" "So that... he doesn't have to wander like me." "So that he learns something and gets a job." "He already knows how to drive." "Not very well, but he's good for his age..." "This is my eight-year old son and he drives better than me!" "For those of you who watched only over the camera, he drove all the way around the block and he came back to the square." "There you go!" "My eight-year old son, Sultan!" "There's 100 here and 50 there." "Easy !" "1 , 2, 300." "Everything's ok." "I am 14 years old and I go to Grade 1 ." "Better that than nothing..." "When I get home, I eat some bread," "I change my clothes and I go to work." "I've been driving a Dyana for three years now and nothing ever happened to me." "I never had any accident." "Nobody ever stopped me..." "But now this new goverment stops us all the time." "They ask for car documents." "We don't have any, so we don't dare to go out anymore." "We always have to kee an eye on them." "They even wait for us when we return from work..." "We tell them we can't get proper apers because we are illiterate but they say they don't care, that we must have all the documents." "I never run away from the cops." "I ask them, can yod forgive me at least one more time?" "They say no." "They tell me: "If you don't mind paying the fines, just keep driving."" "So I keep driving!" "Bottles go for 2 cents, same as a kilo of iron." "Aluminum is 60 cents, copper is 1 euro/kg." "Cardboard is 3 cents..." "and so on." "25 euros." "For the whole truck." "That's all." "There's not even enough for gas!" "Not even for beer!" "Not even for beer..." "Let's go, darling!" "We add water to make the cardboard heavier." "But they know we do it so they also take off some weight." "But it's still a good deal because they can never take off as much weight as we can add in." "I should really fiv this gas pedal..." "But I don't feel like it since I can't go out anymore." "Everything else is fine." "Nothing should be changed on this car." "Only the crankshaft and the pistons." "I changed the carburator." "I ut one from a FIAT 600." "Now it consumes twice as little gas." "I got this used radiocassette player for 3 euros." "I didn't buy the alarm." "It was a municipal inspector who gave it to me as a gift when I loaded some sand for him." "He told me to put it on my Dyana..." "I also have a cigarette lighter." "Do yod want to see that?" "I still didn't light my cigarette, you'll see..." "The battery is weak, we have to wait a little." "There you go!" "I fived this out of pure pleasure!" "Check out this one!" "When Yugoslavia won the gold medal..." "They didn't give anything to the poor." "They won twice!" "Why didn't they give something to us, refugees?" "A bag of flour, at least!" "We also cheer for Yugoslavia!" "We too have a will to win!" "Even greater than the Serbs!" "I played football myself for 15 years back in Kosovo." "I played for Maljuzgan." "Maybe someone heard of Maljuzgan?" "I wore... number two." "And here?" "If somebody asked me, I wodld play again!" "I can be both defender or goalkeeper." "It's very hard to find a new Dyana these days, because we already turned most of them into paper-mobiles." "We work so much with them that we can almost say that they are slowly disappearing from the streets." "Pretty soon we will have to find a new car... a Wartburg or a Renault 4, probably... to try to make a similar machine." "A man from Dyana told me, to bring them my old Dyana, and they will give me their newest one!" "But I can't remember in which city I have to go, that's the problem!" "If I knew, I would take my Dyana there and get a brand new Citroen." "He wanted to keep mine for advertising and give me a new one as a gift." "But I don't remember where I have to go." "No, no, no." "I would never give away my Dyana!" "She's everything I have now." "I don't have money, I don't have a house..." "I only have this Dyana." "Even if they kick me out of here," "I can always put my wife, my kids and a mattress inside, and we could sleep there!" "I could go to Kragujevac, to Kraljevo, to Novi Sad..." "Anywhere I want!" "It can make 500km in one day, no problem!" "I don't know exactly which country made the Dyana." "Somebody told us..." "but I forgot." "It must be from Russia!" "Only the Russians could make such a great car!" "Only them!" "Everything that they make is top class." "I don't think it's from Russia... and it doesn't matter anyways." "I just know that they told me to bring them my Dyana, and they would give me a brand new Citroen." "Is it China, then?" "If it's not Russia, then it must be China!" "Nobody else could make this, only China or the Russians!" "Ever since we broke up, Dyana, my love" "I keep asking myself, beloved darling" "Why did you Leave me?" "Nobody will ever love you like I do" "Dyana, beauty of my dreams" "Nobody will ever love you like I do" "Dyana, beauty of my dreams" "If we ever meet again, Dyana my love" "Promise me you'll tell me" "Why did you leave me?" "Nobody will ever love you like I do..." "Dyana, beauty of my dreams" "My heart is calling you through this song, Dyana my love" "If no one else can make you happy" "You can always return to me" "Nobody will ever love you like I do..." "Dyana, beauty of my dreams" "PADINSKA SKELA PENITENTIARY" "See you next time!" "Hey, uncle!" "Look at you!" "Welcome back, for God's sake!" "I heard you gained weight, but you didn't!" "But they cut off all your hair, motherfuckers!" "Who are you?" "!" "You are not Imer!" "What do you mean, I'm not Imer?" "!" "You are not Imer!" "You are not Imer!" "Who am I then?" "!" "You are not Imer!" "You are not Imer!" "What do you mean?" "Who am I then?" "It's me, your father!" "Let go off me!" "You crazy!" "Ljumnora, come here!" "She's being shy..." "Come to daddy..." "Is it true that Dragan was also in jail with you?" "Is it true they didn't give you any bread to eat?" "No, it's not true." "What's wrong with you?" "I took off all my hair myself!" "You are crazy!" "Come on, sing me that song!" "Did yod forget it already?" "Don't worry, baby, his hair will grow back!" "It's already much bigger than it was!" "Don't you recognize me?" "She does." "She waved at you!" "If somebody told me this, I would've never believed him!" "Why the fuck do you need this Dyana for?" "I'lI drive it as long as I am alive." "I'll only stop when I die." "If Monday ever comes..." "This Dyana is a bad omen!" "No way!" "My Dyana is like a flying dragon!" "My engine is pure candy!" "Fucking Dyana!" "It got into your blood..." "I prepared it well." "I put on a front panel, a roof, a radio..." "Even a small TV..." "When the cops stop me now, they will really have something to take..." "But I don't think they'II take my Dyana, it's wintertime now." "I do work!" "The others are too afraid!" "That's because he's young!" "He has never been busted!" "He doesn't know how it feels to get beaten!" "Why would they beat me because of my Dyana?" "I'd let them have it." "I take my chances." "If they take it, they take it." "If they don't, I keep going." "You can be sure of one thing:" "If she doesn't start on the third try," "I'II break her and I'll get a new one." "My Dyana was like candy..." "and it still is!" "I want to repair everything, no matter what it costs." "Whatever happens, I will keep driving." "I have nothing else to make a living from." "I won't push carts out of spite." "people would say, Look, he spent 30 days in jail, and he doesn't dare to drive his Dyana anymore." "Fuck that!" "Jail is for humans." "Jail is for men, not for women!" "There's also a jail for women." "If they take my Dyana, I'll get myself a horse with a carriage and I'll keep working." "But I don't think they'll let me use even that..." "They won't allow you to go downtown." "No, I'll go here in the suburbs, but they'll still make problems." "What about red lights?" "I would stop at all the red lights!" "Whose lighter is this?" "starring:" "Filmed, edited, written, directed and produced by... sound sound mix end titles also starring:" "special thanks:" "In this film we used the music of Husker Du," "Ferid Avdic, Paul Anka... and Micheal Jackson -- he's one of us " "And I myself played some tarabuk." "BELGRADE, summer  fall of 2002" "instructions for making Dyanas available on the website:"