Skinning (film)

This news footage is intercut with shots of the movie's main protagonist, skinhead Novica, protesting by leading chants and lighting flares in front of the embassy while he's also providing narration.

The story than backs up as Novica (Nikola Rakočević), a timid and geeky high school student with frumpy clothing and disheveled thick hair, is introduced.

Due to his awkwardness around people, his social life is nothing to speak of—his only friends are his stoner cousin Mirko (Miloš Tanasković) as well as an even nerdier math colleague Stanislav (Vladimir Tešović).

Flattered by the attention from a kid placed much higher on the high school social scale, Novica passes Relja the solution scribbled on a piece of paper.

Outside, Relja is happy and impressed with Novica's behaviour under pressure, handing him a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf as well as extending an invite to a lecture by professor Hadži-Tankosić (Predrag Ejdus) at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy.

The next day, Relja takes Novica to a football match since his skinheads are active as fans of FK Radnik—corrupt lower-league club financed by the local gangster nicknamed Pufta (Srđan Miletić).

Ostensibly faithful supporters of the club, they don't actually care much for football and mostly use the matches as a public platform to raise the group's profile and further their right-wing political agenda through racist chanting, violence, and hooliganism.

Couple of days later, Relja formally introduces Novica to the various individuals that make up his skinhead, white supremacist group, including his sexy girlfriend Mina (Bojana Novaković) and computer geek Svarog, all of whom hang out in an underground swastika-adorned cave where they mostly guzzle beer and listen to hard core bands such as Direktori.

[5] Though on occasion applying a thin disguise when it comes to actual names, the movie references and alludes to various individuals, organizations, and events from the Serbian public life during the 2000s.