Siniša Labrović

How the last King of the Belgians becomes the first Emperor of Europe.

Contemporary Croatian artist and performer Siniša Labrović and his wife Snježana Klarić, both in their 50s, decided to move from Croatia to Berlin, without knowing German and without a concrete plan on how to survive in Germany.

The year is 37 BC. A young Liburnian Volsus is taken by a Roman unit to help in what at first seems a simple task of collecting taxes, but the encounters with local Illyrian tribes soon lead to unexpected turns of events, as they show more resilience to subjugation than meets the eye. We see their archaic, emotional world of quaint and brutal laws and traditions through the eyes of this youngster, regarded by the Romans as a primitive barbarian, and gradually come to understand that their world is not all that different from our own.