the world champions – TV SERIES (2016)

Original title: Prvaci sveta

Produced by: Intermedia Network (Serbia)
Number of episodes: 12
Runtime: 45mins each
Broadcasting Date: 2016
Broadcaster: Serbian National Television (RTS)

SYNOPSIS:

TV series about how basketball became the most successful Serbian sport of all time! A fascinating film story about the basketball miracle from the Balkans!
Based on a true story and actual events : How four teenagers in an occupied Belgrade hatched a plan: we will be world champions in basketball. With no experience, no money, no courts, no real basketball!.

In that 1970, they won the worldwide gold. They emerged to be the best in the world. And most of them came to this world amidst WW2. They were born while bombs were dropping from the sky. They grew up with nothing but a wish to survive and be the best in the world.

This is a story about a big dream and big country, how world basketball history was created, how we became the “magicians” from the Balkans, how the famous “Yu Basketball School” was created, how imagination came to be a basketball standard!