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The film was sponsored by [[Serbian diaspora]] community organizations, the [[Centre for Research on Globalization]], and private individuals amongst others.<ref name="politika"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Weight of Chains – Sponsors|url=http://www.weightofchains.ca/1/#sponsors|publisher=Malagurski Cinema|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102211341/http://www.weightofchains.com/sponsors.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Okovi raspada bivše Jugoslavije">[http://www.vesti-online.com/Dijaspora/drzava/Kanada/Vesti/127741/Okovi-raspada-bivse-Jugoslavije Okovi raspada bivše Jugoslavije] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106004305/http://www.vesti-online.com/Dijaspora/drzava/Kanada/Vesti/127741/Okovi-raspada-bivse-Jugoslavije |date=November 6, 2014 }} Vesti, April 1, 2011</ref>

==Synopsis==

==Critical response==

[[Toni Ti]], writing in ''[[Brightest Young Things]]'', a [[Washington DC]] and [[New York City|New York]]-based web magazine, noted that the film "brings up a lot of issues the public may not be aware of". However, she describes the "often-gratingly blatant bias of the film maker". Malagurski, she says "employs a quippy sarcastic tone that sounds incredibly petulant and at times, too amateur for the gravitas subject matter". She goes on, "overall, spending 30 minutes on Kosovo and barely mentioning what really happened in Srebrenica leaves me questioning the director’s choice in taking this approach". Concluding, "what is he trying to show? It can be quite baffling at times".<ref name="Brightest Young Things">{{cite web | url=http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/movie-review-weight-of-chains-opens-in-dc.htm | title=Weight Of Chains Opens In DC | publisher=Tony Ti - Brightest Young Things | date=May 23, 2011 | accessdate=26 September 2014 | archive-date=October 28, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028063037/http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/movie-review-weight-of-chains-opens-in-dc.htm | url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Konstantin Kilibarda]], writing for the blog [[Politics, Respun]], described the film as a "misguided attempt to give an alternative account of the wars in the former Yugoslavia", and that the film maker "attempts to minimize, deflect and distort the well established role of Serbian leaders in the former Yugoslavia in pursuing a militant nationalist program since the late 1980s, that sought to reclaim Kosovo through the imposition of martial law, as well as create 'ethnically compact' territories that would link Serbs in Serbia with Serbian minorities in Bosnia and Croatia".<ref name="Kilibarda">{{cite web | url=http://politicsrespun.org/2012/02/undermining-solidarity-in-the-balkans-reviewing-boris-malagurskis-the-weight-of-chains/ | title=Reviewing The Weight of Chains - Konstantin Kilibarda | work=Politics, Re-Spun | date=November 30, 2001 | accessdate=3 September 2014 | archive-date=September 22, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922222630/http://politicsrespun.org/2012/02/undermining-solidarity-in-the-balkans-reviewing-boris-malagurskis-the-weight-of-chains/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Tristan Miller]], writing in the U.K.'s ''[[Socialist Standard]]'', wrote "the film’s flimsier claims and arguments can be explained as the work of a naïve but well-meaning patriot, but others cannot be so innocently excused" ... "for all the effort he spends decrying the dishonest propagandising which fuelled the Yugoslavian implosion, he certainly has no qualms employing many of the same tricks when it suits his own agenda". Concluding, "he has a very low estimation of the intelligence of his audience".<ref name="Miller review"/>

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