In Serbia we have such a places where the houses made of mud bricks that keep you warm during the winter, and keep you calm during the summer.
Nowadays architecture changes the picture of old timeol, but in some part there are still existing that colorful and warm mud houses that we use as a sceenary for historical movie.
This day, there are shooting movie named Roots after the novel of famous former Yougoslav writer Dobrica Ćosić that is about how to keep family name alive, inspite that you don't have a son to keep it forward...