The Bizarre Country
The Bizarre Country | |
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Written by | (screenplay) Radoje Domanović (story) |
Directed by | |
Starring | Lazar Ristovski Enver Petrovci Žika Milenković Branko Pleša Dragan Maksimović Milenko Zablaćanski |
Theme music composer | Ksenija Zečević |
Country of origin | Yugoslavia |
Original language | Serbo-Croatian |
Production | |
Running time | 91 min |
Release | |
Original network | Radio Television Belgrade |
Original release | 1988 |
The Bizarre Country (Serbian: Neka čudna zemlja, Нека чудна земља) is a 1988 former Yugoslav drama/fantasy film based on the satirical novellas Stradija and Danga, written by Serbian writer Radoje Domanović.
Plot[]
A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wanders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.
Cast[]
- Lazar Ristovski as The Traveler
- as The Blackhaired Girl
- Dragan Maksimović as The Painter
- Enver Petrovci as The New Chief of Police
- as The Old Chief of Police
- as The Higher Clerk of the Ministry
- Milenko Zablaćanski as The Guitarist
- as The Violinist
- Živojin Milenković as The Minister of Agriculture
- Branko Pleša as The Minister of the Foreign Affairs
- as The Minister of Finance
- as The Minister of The Inner Affairs
- Gordana Gadžić as The Painter's Sister
- as The Minister of Economy
- as The Courier of the Ministry
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External links[]
Categories:
- 1988 films
- Yugoslav films
- Serbian films
- Serbian fantasy drama films
- Serbian-language films
- 1980s fantasy drama films
- Yugoslav fantasy drama films
- 1988 drama films
- Yugoslav film stubs
- Fantasy film stubs