"WE’RE ALL MORE OR LESS ALONE IN THIS WORLD”
Peter Krobath: What kind of person is Uncle Ante? Can you describe this character to me?
Miki Manojlovic: He’s child of the 1960s. He’s had a very good general education – at that time we had excellent schools in the wild "Wild East”. Uncle Ante has been around a lot in his life; he was a globetrotter, he’s seen the world. Now he works for the municipal refuse collection department in Vienna; in his eyes it’s a completely normal job. For me Uncle Ante’s someone who’s almost too good for this world.
Do you think he typifies a particular generation from ex-Yugoslavia, a generation which had to leave its home country to find work abroad?
Miki Manojlovic: There’s a vast number of people, millions in fact, who’ve left this part of the Balkans since the end of the Second World War. And Uncle Ante is one of them. That’s probably the price we have to pay for our history. Perhaps we were trying to transform ourselves too quickly into a modern society, after all the years of darkness, maybe that’s the reason why so many peole left.
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