Once again, my beloved and I were invited to the opening of the Zagreb Film Festival. Before the movie selected for this special occasion was shown this evening, we saw a four-minute film of Zagreb taken in 1911. Little is known about this film, but it is the oldest of the city on record. At the time, there were around seventy-five-thousand inhabitants in the city, which was still under Austro-Hungarian rule (“The Growth of Zagreb,” February 15, 2014). One thing that struck me at once was the sharp urban-rural divide that dominated every scene (“The Urban-Rural Divide,” November 29, 2013). In the vernacular of the Croatian capital, the purger and the paor, coming from the burger and bauer in German, were obvious by their dress. The two could not be mistaken. The bourgeois and the peasantry wore entirely different clothes. Before World War I, there must have been a sharp national division between the two, as well. They must have spoken different languages, but the film was taken long before the introduction of sound. Anyhow, the opening night of this year’s festival was very to my liking.