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Zavoj Lake Canyon of the Jerma River
CONTINUED SUMMER WITH THE SHOW “APPLE MADE OF GOLD”
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Photo: Nebojša Petrović
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e have already taken you to that flight last year, from this same place. Saint-Exupéry, and Richard Bach, and Crnjanski, and Krakow, and Miroslav Antić, and Njegoš were there with us. Old reasons have passed, another annual cycle is completed, and that flight, yours and ours, is still ongoing. Serbia seen from above, from the height, through the eye of the camera, opens up before us as a treasury of beauty, archetypal image, code. All the credit for this experience, beautiful and exciting, still goes to Nebojša Petrović and the crew of the show Apple Made of Gold, the television edition of National Review. Without them and their quiet years-long feat, which is witnessed once a week by the viewers of the Radio-Television of Serbia, there wouldn’t be these images before us. This time we see the canyon of the Jerma River, as a wrinkle cut into the dense forests of Southeast Serbia. Part of Zavoj Lake, amazing colors. The center of Ruski Krstur and the “framed infinity” of the Bačka plain. Royal Park and Kur-salon in Banja Kovilјača resembling a castle on the Loire. Hotel resort on Tara, modern in a smart way, quite in the spirit of the mountain. Nemanja’s Monastery Đurđevi Stupovi in Old Ras, a sanctuary whose restoration is long under way thanks to the famous action “The Temple Builds Us”. We look as if we were on that flight ourselves. As if the eye of the camera is our own eye. It is good to have in mind the remark of Leonardo da Vinci: “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return”. “Before us is just a small piece from the workshop of Nebojša Petrović. It is just an invitation. It cannot be a substitute for gold, an apple, or watching Serbia through the eyes of that beautiful show”. (B. M.) SRBIJA SPECIJALNO IZDAWE 2019.