When Luka finds a book written by Hemingway in an abandoned house near the front, he has no choice but to use it to start a fire. He rips a few pages from the middle and keeps the book next to the furnace. Later, when the fire catches on, he throws it inside. Communism was no haven for writers to begin with. As Andrei Bitov says, no equality will raise temples and palaces, paint them, decorate.
Culture needs a base, wealth.
When there is a war raging around you, art seems truly senseless. Jokanovic and Arsenijevic did exactly that, they passionately disclosed the insides of their minds, of their hearts.