前南斯拉夫黑浪潮电影运动的重要导演之一。1977年嘎纳金棕榈提名。
A group of tall apartment houses, similar to fortresses, is surounded with smog one night, causing panic among the tenants. Common danger reveals wasted interpesonal relationships, selfishness, lack of love and returns the sense for universal meaning of human existence to a man, developing sense for humanism and compassion for another human being.
Vlatko Gilic - got the awards in Oberhausen, Berlin, was nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe - in the category of the best foreign film etc. He was prohibited by Yugoslav communists during the 80's of XX ct., and by Slobodan Milosevic during the 90's of XX ct, and he became University professor at Academy of Arts Novi Sad, at department of Film Direction, as Main professor.

Story is set in a small town in Serbia. Rasha is thirty, lives with his alcoholic father and trying, and failing, to make ends meet by giving literature lessons to teenage girls and hosting a program ...( read more read more... )on the local radio, presenting new books and interviewing authors. Ivan, a promising judoist in his teenage years, has since had a history of neurosis, psychotic episodes, hospitalization, being heavily medicated, involvement in various occult groups and practices, prior to having been baptized in the Orthodox Church. Milla is very attractive, energetic, resourceful and very straightforward: it immediately becomes clear that, apart from having a student/teacher relationship, she and Rasha are lovers. Doole is a wannabe yuppie: he works for the local representative of major confectionery brands and is doing his best to act the part of a successful businessman who is well aware of global business trends - as he sees them. The monotony of their lives is interrupted by arrival of Igor, who has lived in Huddersfield since the beginning of the nineties, and this is the first time he's come to visit since. They all get together in the evening, and what begins as a cheerful high school reunion party of close friends with a lot of catching up to do, turns into an emotional roller coaster of reminiscing, dark humor, bitterness, uncontrollable laughter, anger, grim soul searching. Through the very personal accounts of their own lives and lives of their high school friends, we get to reveal the ominous mark the final decade of the twentieth century has left on them and their entire generation, and find the answer to the question: do they have the strength to move on?

1950年夏天，萨拉热窝六岁男孩马尔克（Moreno D'E Bartolli 饰）的生活中除了伙伴与足球，还时常见到成年人小心翼翼的举止。父亲米萨（Miki Manojlovic 饰）为人风流，与一位女体育教师有染但又毫无拆散自己家庭的打算，一家四口的生活温馨而又波澜不惊。不久马尔克小伙伴的父亲被人带走，米萨则因不合时宜的言论被大舅调查，并被派到矿场劳改，父亲在马尔克割包皮的那天离开，母亲对马尔克说爸爸出差去了。父亲的矿场生涯终于结束，一家三口迁往小镇兹沃尔尼克与父亲团聚。父亲在小镇工作之余，又恢复了偷食的习惯，马尔克也结识了新的伙伴——医生的小女儿玛莎。但回到萨拉热窝的日子仍然遥遥无期。在当地的国庆典礼上，马尔克被选为献礼的少先队员，结果马尔克上台时也说错了话……