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The Christmas truce of 1914 in the film Joyeux Noël (2005)
(Zalozba Z R C, 2018)
The 2005 film Joyeux Noël describes events on the Western Front on Christmas Day in 1914. After several months of trench warfare under difficult weather conditions, singing carols on Christmas Eve began a spontaneous truce ...
Sworn Virgins of the Balkan Highlands / Zaprisežene Device v Balkanskem Visokogorju
(Institute of Slovenian EthnologyInstitute of Ethnomusicology,SloveniaThe Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2021)
Once widely spread in the Dinaric Mountains part of the
Balkan Peninsula swearing to virginity was a social and
cultural custom recorded among all groups inhabiting the
area. In the absence of a capable adult man in the ...