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prožimanjem fakata i fikcije, Kiš provocira<br />

povijesnu reprezentaciju, s pozadinom<br />

svijesti o holokaustu i inim masovnim<br />

nasiljima 20. stoljeća.<br />

Jedna od posljedica rata na području<br />

bivše Jugoslavije je prinudno napuštanje<br />

mjesta porijekla i boravka, egzil. Povratak,<br />

ako do njega i dođe, je često bolan<br />

te podrazumijeva sučelja<strong>van</strong>je s novim:<br />

državom, jezikom, ljudima, imenima ulica,<br />

a integracija je spor i kompleksan proces<br />

koji često podrazumijeva netolerantnost<br />

i građansku neaktivnost. Zasigurno je uz<br />

te probleme vezan još i nedostatak javne<br />

rasprave, artikulacije problema te rada na<br />

traumi. Ulicu divljih kestenova teško je<br />

prepoznati, od kestenova ni traga, sasjeklo<br />

ih rat, ljudi ili jednostavno vrijeme, a na<br />

njihovom mjesto zasađen je “lepi zeleni<br />

praziluk”.<br />

Film Želimira Žilnika Kenedi se vraća kući<br />

ukazuje upravo na tu istu traumatičnu<br />

jezgru, ali na različit način. U pitanju je dokumentarac<br />

o specifičnoj i katastrofalnoj<br />

situaciji u kojoj su se našle romske obitelji<br />

nakon završetka rata u bivšoj Jugoslaviji.<br />

Romima i njihovim obiteljima dopušteno<br />

je da, u sklopu humanitarne akcije, dođu<br />

u Njemačku otprilike kada je počeo<br />

rat u bivšoj Jugoslaviji. Otad su živjeli<br />

u Njemačkoj, najprije kao izbjeglice, a<br />

kasnije su dobili mogućnost zapošlja<strong>van</strong>ja,<br />

rađala su im se djeca i imali su osjećaj<br />

normalnog života. Tijekom 2002. i 2003.<br />

bez ikakve javne rasprave stotine Roma<br />

s obiteljima tiho su i potajno deportirani<br />

iz Njemačke u zemlju svog «porijekla». U<br />

Njemačkoj su za sobom morali ostaviti sve.<br />

U Srbiji se te obitelji suočavaju s velikom<br />

tragedijom, smatrani su marginom, lišeni<br />

svih prava koja su imali u Njemačkoj, dok<br />

mlađi članovi obitelji ne znaju nijedan<br />

drugi jezik osim njemačkog. Do danas ni<br />

u Njemačkoj ni u Srbiji u javnosti nije bilo<br />

Children <strong>and</strong> the Sensitive. Kiš’s work is<br />

conditioned by biography, multiethnic<br />

origin, the merging of cultures <strong>and</strong> the<br />

tragedy of personal experience in the<br />

wartime <strong>and</strong> post-war period. His stories<br />

are short <strong>and</strong> clear, simply narrated, as if<br />

it were all about unimportant things that<br />

could have remained untold. But in fact, in<br />

each one of these fragments, through the<br />

act of retailing, the interweaving of fact<br />

<strong>and</strong> fiction, Kiš provokes a historical representation,<br />

with a background of awareness<br />

about the holocaust <strong>and</strong> the mass violence<br />

of the 20th century.<br />

One of the consequences of the war in <strong>for</strong>mer<br />

Yugoslavia was being <strong>for</strong>ced to ab<strong>and</strong>on<br />

one’s place of origin <strong>and</strong> residence,<br />

exile. The return, if it ever comes about, is<br />

often painful, <strong>and</strong> involves confrontation<br />

with the new: a new state, language, people,<br />

street names, <strong>and</strong> integration is a slow<br />

<strong>and</strong> complex process that often involves<br />

intolerance <strong>and</strong> civil inertia And, which<br />

must be connected with these problems,<br />

there is also the absence of public debate,<br />

of the articulation of problems, <strong>and</strong> of<br />

work on the traumas.<br />

It is difficult to recognise the street of<br />

horse chestnuts, there is no trace of the<br />

chestnuts, they have been felled by the<br />

war, by people or simply by time, <strong>and</strong> in<br />

their place “nice green leeks have been<br />

planted.”<br />

Kenedi comes back home, the film by Želimir<br />

Žilnik, actually draws attention to the<br />

same traumatic core, but in a different<br />

way. What is at issue is a documentary<br />

about a specific <strong>and</strong> catastrophic situation<br />

in which Roma families were situated after<br />

the end of the war in the <strong>for</strong>mer Yugoslavia.<br />

The Roma <strong>and</strong> their families were<br />

allowed, as part of humanitarian campaign<br />

to get into Germany at about the same

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