Republic of Peščenica

Republika Peščenica was a satirical-parodical project of dictator-ruled republic by famous Croatian maverick traveller Željko Malnar. It was named after the Zagreb neighbourhood of Peščenica.

Events were aired on anti-TV-show Nightmare Stage or Noćna mora, Saturdays from 22:00 until the early morning hours on Z1, and transmitted via satellite (a pause during the summer). Events were described in short version in Malnar's column in the Globus magazine from Zagreb.

For a short period of time, shortened (and censored) versions of previous shows were aired on Croatian national TV in May 2007 (as "Privremeni tjednik"; only five episodes).

It was located in Peščenica working-class neighbourhood in Zagreb. The neighbourhood is on the northern part of the city (northwards from Sava river), southeastwards from very city center.

The project ended with the end of the TV-Show in 2010 after the "minister of defense", Zvonimir Levačić, died.

Anthem is Danijela. Željko Malnar & Soma Dollara: Dobro jutro, Peščenico (Anthem 2?).

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