Nobel laureate

tv show

poster for Nobel laureate

8 total episodes

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1 seasons

First Aired October 05, 2024

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Overview

The eight-episode series follows the life of the writer Ivo Andrić during several months in the fall and winter of 1961, from the moment he found out he had won the Nobel Prize until he returned from the award ceremony, via Switzerland, to Belgrade. Each of the episodes has two parallel streams of narration: one, related to the year 1961, in which we follow Andrić's preparations for going to Stockholm, and the second, a subjective jump back to the past. Andrić's view of the key moments of his own life, which were almost always the key moments of the country where he lived and lives, the encounters and decisions he made, is full of questioning, doubts and re-evaluation. Through eight episodes, the most important, well-known and less well-known, paths that Andrić walked, the faces that surrounded him and the places where he lived during the winter of 1961 and throughout his life are revealed and followed.

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Season 1 - Episode 7 - 1h 48m

Air Date

October 26, 2024

Overview

Jovan Ćirilov, the playwright of the Yugoslav Drama Theater of which Andrić was the chairman of the management board, is asking for permission to dramatize the Cursed Courtyard. Andrić remembers 1914 and his prison days and the time when, released from prison, he spent his confinement with his mother in Ovčarev and the Guča Gora monastery, hanging out with the friars. His memory takes him to Višegrad in 1917, to the bridge over the Drina where he meets his teacher Ljubomir, and to the Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy where he lies together with Ivo Vojnović, with whom he is planning a future Yugoslav theater. In 1919 and 1920, he hangs out with Crnjanski and Boro Stanković at literary evenings in the Hotel Moskva in Belgrade. At 61, he is waiting to write his will and go to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize.