The Weight of Chains

The Weight of Chains
Official poster
Directed byBoris Malagurski
Screenplay byBoris Malagurski
Produced byBoris Malagurski
StarringMichel Chossudovsky
Lewis MacKenzie
Vlade Divac
John Perkins
Michael Parenti
Scott Taylor
Jože Mencinger
James Bissett
John Bosnitch
Branislav Lečić
Škabo
Srđa Trifković
Slobodan Samardžić
Edited byBoris Malagurski
Anastasia Trofimova
Marko Janković
Music byNovo Sekulović
Jasna Đuran
Kevin Macleod
Production
company
Distributed byJourneyman Pictures (Worldwide)
Release dates
  • December 17, 2010 (2010-12-17) (Australia)
  • February 19, 2011 (2011-02-19) (Canada)
Running time
124 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish, Serbian
Budget$21,850

The Weight of Chains is a 2010 Canadian documentary film directed by Boris Malagurski.[1] The film argues that the breakup of Yugoslavia was "orchestrated by Western powers in furtherance of imperial ambitions".[2] According to the filmmaker, it also presents stories of "good people in evil times".[3] It was released on December 17, 2010.

The sequel, The Weight of Chains 2, was released on November 20, 2014,[4] while the last part of the trilogy, The Weight of Chains 3, was released on September 28, 2019.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Culture: "Good people in evil times" Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Politika Newspaper | August 28, 2010
  2. ^ Miller, Tristan. (January 2014). "Nationalism and Destruction in the Balkans". Socialist Standard. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  3. ^ Novi dokumentarac srpskog Majkla Mura Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine PressOnline.rs
  4. ^ "The Serbian Film festival at Montecasino". Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2014.