The biopic of one of the former Yugoslavia’s top musicians and songwriters is scheduled to premiere at Belgrade’s Sava Centre on May 10, Wednesday’s news conference was told by filmmakers.

The documentary Heavenly Topic (Nebeska Tema) about Belgrade musician Vlada Divljan features several other musicians of the Yugoslav generation that appeared in the early 1980s, all performing new versions of Divljan’s music. Divljan died in Vienna in March 2015.

Divljan was the frontman and driving force behind the group Idoli whose New Wave pop music was liked across the former Yugoslavia. He is viewed as the local gentleman of rock ‘n’ roll with cover versions of his songs still being performed.

Director Mladen Maticevic told the news conference that he did not make a classic documentary, adding that the movie is both a document and a fairy tale, urban and emotional and romantic, just like the man it portrays.

“I spoke to hundreds of people about him, and I am completely fascinated by the fact that none of those people said a single bad word about him. Wherever I said the name Vlada Divljan, a movie about him, doors opened and that is Vlada’s magic. This is precious. There is a man who nobody said anything bad about,” Maticevic said.

Fellow Idoli band member, bass player Zdenko Kolar said that he always had a different experience of Divljan’s songs.

The movie is produced by Starhill and the United Media company with several co-producers. Funds to start shooting also came from the Indie GoGo platform.