It was almost a quarter of a century ago. Whilst the Rusian Empire crumbled without a shot being fired, Yugoslavia dismantled in a blood-bath, at the very time when Maastricht's political and monetary Europe was being built. Yugoslavia, the other side of the looking glass will show us how the dream was born of having these six nations, five peoples, three languages, three religions, and two alphabets, live together. How did it become a detonator of the First World War, how it became the prey of nazi and communist totalitarianism between the two wars, and became a recurrent battle field during the Second World War? How did this dream strive to escape bipolar separation of the world created by Yalta, and manage to create a Yugoslavian Eldorado? How did it explode upon the return of nationalisms and religious awakening, these two sides of a head on clash of civilizations that was now in charge of the new world order? How did it become the country of frontiers and barbed-wire, and end up symbolising ethnic cleansing?It is these questions that Yougoslavie de l’autre côté du miroir will answer with a critical approach wherin archives, witnesses, and analysis interrogate not only the official history but also the main conflicting versions, to better reveal the secret otives and the hiddn mechanisms of an exceptionnal creation of nationalities and nationalisms. The first part of the film will cover the period from 1918 to 1980, year of the death of Tito, and will explore the circumstances of the foundation of Yugoslavia and the years of unity under the banner of Tito communism. The second part will deal with the catastrophic scenario of the country's separation with communism up until the final disintegration after five fratricide wars. This part will take stock of the state of affairs of the countries that once formed Yugoslavia.