Setting the scene for movie cooperation

Many Chinese can still clearly remember the plots of movies made in the former Yugoslavia, such as Walter defends Sarajevo and The Bridge.

When he met Tomislav Nikolic, and his delegation in Beijing recently, President Xi Jinping told the Serbian president that he can still whistle the theme from The Bridge.

In June, before he arrived in Serbia on a visit, an article Xi wrote for a local newspaper said the movies had kindled patriotic passion among the people of the two countries for many years.