Gjorgji Neshkovski

Do you believe in fate - in ‘So it was written...’? Do you think our fate is determined when we are born and that we cannot escape it? Or do you think every human creates their own destiny - that every choice we make changes the course of our life?

The Comrade is a story about a bitter old man, probably the last living WW2 veteran, whose memories of the years spent as a high ranking official in ex-Yugoslavia are his only connection to reality, while, against all odds, he still goes on living according to the rules of the old system, a system which has been long gone.