"Stiže čovjeku sve kad mu nije potrebno." (Everything comes to a man when he doesn't need it) Ivo Andrić said - from the first episode of this wonderful mini series - to one of his companions in 1961 when receiving the Nobel Prize. And unfortunately he was right; What the author of "A Bridge Over the Drina" was least interested in was money; He had already published his main work and was admired by one circle, and hated or viewed with suspicion by another since his imprisonment for being a close friend of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Joseph who unleashed the First World War. Nor could he achieve love. glory until quite late, the seventy-year-old had to walk through the shooting of the streets in Belgrade to visit his great love, the designer Milica Babić-Jovanović, whom he could only marry until he became the widow of journalist Nenad Jovanović. When Andrić received the Nobel Prize in Tito's time, he was only 2 years away from being named president -ad vitam-. Very few, or almost no one, would shamelessly admit that he congenially supports a fascist mentality such as that used by Hitler at the time, much less with attitudes such as that of his histrionic propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, but Andrić suffers the worst of misfortunes, tolerate characters like Radovan Zogovic, from the agitation and propaganda committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party and his irreverent questioning of the writer "while we were at war in the forest, the man was busy writing a novel." What an irony, a soldier who little or nothing He uses his brain except to follow orders and does not forgive Andric for writing "Gospodjica" (The woman from Sarajevo).After deserving the award, Andric recovers crucial moments from his peaceful and yet always suspicious past. For example, when he was forced to join the Serbian Literary Cooperative and the writer Isidora Sekulić did not even say an angry word towards him when they were both traveling in the car. Throughout the series, Andric's hidden shame for not using Lenin as much in his works compared to Miroslav Krleža will be a constant. He is almost reproached for the fact that his award is rather from Yugoslavia "because he deserved it" and not so much for his work, in addition to his bourgeois affiliation related to the Academy and of course his participation in the Bosnian Youth opposing the Occupation. In episode 3, his visit to his mother's grave is a sad and beautiful scene, in general terms it gives attention to the human being afflicted by the ailments of achieving the maximum prize instead of being happy or showing it off with affection and pride.
