Moving over to ICM after IMDb stupidly shut the message boards down,I took a look at the Challenges page. Among the year-long challenges,I noticed an exciting "exchange" project,which led to me finding out who's singing over there.
The plot:
A day before the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia takes place, Aleksa Simic, Lovac, Brka, Celavi,a newly wed couple and a budding singer get aboard Mr. Krstić old,pig farm bus and head for Belgrade. Initially finding a flat tire and a damaged bridge to be forks in the road,the group soon find themselves taking a detour into an unfolding invasion.
View on the film:
Broadly drawing each passenger,the screenplay by Dusan Kovacevic drives the group down a dry wit folk tale path,where Simic's honour of being a WWI vet and Brka's Germanophile and others creates A Canterbury Tale sense of each of them revealing their backgrounds via stories,as they drive into oncoming history. Taking the wheels off the bus with a deliciously dark satirical explosion, Kovacevic cleverly captures the attempt of the newlyweds to live a normal life under the fog of war,whilst ruthlessly slicing into the "troubled" history of Yugoslavia,emphasised in Brka being given the speaking style/manner of WWII PM of Yugoslavia/Axis puppet Milan Stojadinović.
Driving down the rickety roads of the Balkans,director Slobodan Sijan & cinematographer get under the daily grind of the characters with a rustic green and yellow appearance casting a folk atmosphere over the movie. Conjuring up a touch of excellent absurdist comedy, Sijan brings a Greek Chorus on board,as the passengers look over to find out who's singing over there.
The plot:
A day before the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia takes place, Aleksa Simic, Lovac, Brka, Celavi,a newly wed couple and a budding singer get aboard Mr. Krstić old,pig farm bus and head for Belgrade. Initially finding a flat tire and a damaged bridge to be forks in the road,the group soon find themselves taking a detour into an unfolding invasion.
View on the film:
Broadly drawing each passenger,the screenplay by Dusan Kovacevic drives the group down a dry wit folk tale path,where Simic's honour of being a WWI vet and Brka's Germanophile and others creates A Canterbury Tale sense of each of them revealing their backgrounds via stories,as they drive into oncoming history. Taking the wheels off the bus with a deliciously dark satirical explosion, Kovacevic cleverly captures the attempt of the newlyweds to live a normal life under the fog of war,whilst ruthlessly slicing into the "troubled" history of Yugoslavia,emphasised in Brka being given the speaking style/manner of WWII PM of Yugoslavia/Axis puppet Milan Stojadinović.
Driving down the rickety roads of the Balkans,director Slobodan Sijan & cinematographer get under the daily grind of the characters with a rustic green and yellow appearance casting a folk atmosphere over the movie. Conjuring up a touch of excellent absurdist comedy, Sijan brings a Greek Chorus on board,as the passengers look over to find out who's singing over there.