A moonless winter night descended on the spruce grove while they Kostelići with frozen hands, they raised their tent under the shelter of a cliff. In the weak light of the gas lamp, they dined on a modest peasant meal, listening in terror to the howling of the stormy wind and wolf packs. The father used a ski pole to drive away a family of bears that came to steal his food. He recklessly went out in minus twenty-three degrees Celsius to urinate next to the tent. Because of the frostbite, his genitals were never the same again.
That’s how the heroic epic about the ski champions went, which he shaped into reports and documentaries Bruno Kovacevic.
Crying about poverty
A story about a superhuman struggle and sacrifice, about the strength and will of a so-called little man who succeeds despite bad circumstances, about a poor…
