WHO’S THAT SINGING OVER THERE

“Ko to Tamo Peva”

Serbia, 1980, 86 min

Hilarious comedy with sharp dialogues, intelligent plot, amazing performances of great ex Yugoslav actors. Considered by the audience and by the film critics, in several votings, as the best ex YU film ever!
ABSOLUTE MUST!!!

OLD HIT

• director
• Slobodan Šijan
• writer
• Dušan Kovačević
• editor
• Lana Vukobratović
• DoP
• Božidar Nikolić
• cast
• Pavle Vuisić, Dragan Nikolić, Danilo Bata Stojković, Neda Arnerić, Aleksandar Berček, Slavko Štimac, Milivoje Mića Tomić, Miodrag i Nenad Kostić

• A group of people sets off for Belgrade by a dilapidated bus of the firm: „Krstić and Son“. Each of the passengers has pressing reasons to reach the capital as soon as possible. It is the Spring of 1941. The day on the eve of the fascist attack on Yugoslavia. The bus leaves a deserted and isolated place. The trip drags and lasts for 24 hours due to some unpredictable and strange events, even though the departure station is only about a hundred kilometres far from Belgrade. On the way, under the impressions of the war in Europe, the passengers quarrel and get into conflicts. The atmosphere of a future catastrophe hangs in the air, but more as a presentiment rather than an overt prediction. The old „wreck“ of a bus, with its unusual and crazy passengers, is a comic picture of a decaying epoch, the end of a world that is to disappear in flames and explosions. Intolerance, present from the very beginning of the trip, turns into an open violence the victims of which are two Gypsy musicians. It is not a pure chance bombs start to fall precisely at that moment.