ettore scola’s la terrazza (1980) portrays the ideological disintegration, alienation, and estrangement from revolutionary ideals among italy’s left-wing intellectuals in the late 1970s. through their personal crises, the film lays bare the era’s political and social impasses.
Probably my favorite Balkan LARP of all time is when some Russian Archeologist discovered Iranian linguistic inscriptions on old Greek tables that sound very similar to "Hrvat" (Croat), and some Croatian Intellectuals immediately started saying that Croats were Slavicized Iranians and that they were "Iranian-Gothic"
Before Paradox strategy games, and before tiktok short form video brainrot, some young people used to spend their free-time unproductively in a REAL way