“Who sings there?” ( Serb. To that tamo singing ) - a film directed by Slobodan Shiyan , filmed in the SFRY in 1980. Winner of several international film awards. In 1996, the Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Yugoslavia (AFUN) recognized the film as the best Serbian film made in 50 years (from 1947 to 1995) [2] .
| Who is singing there? | |
|---|---|
| Koh Tamo Peva | |
| Genre | tragifars , drama , parable |
| Producer | Slobodan Shiyan |
| Producer | |
| Author script | Dusan Kovachevich |
| In the main cast | Pavle Vuisic Dragan Nikolic Danilo Stoykovich |
| Operator | Bozhidar Nikolic |
| Composer | |
| Duration | 86 min |
| A country |  Yugoslavia |
| Tongue | and |
| Year | 1980 |
| IMDb | ID 0076276 |
Story
The plot of the film is based on a true story [3] .
April 5, 1941 is the day before the invasion of Yugoslavia by Germany and their allies . A small village 100 kilometers from Belgrade . At the bus stop, several people are waiting for the bus. Each of them has its own reason to rush to the capital. Soon the rusty hut of the private transport company Christich and Son arrives and sets off on a leisurely flight. Passengers of different classes and beliefs, forced to endure each other's society, become participants in a rural funeral, a boundary war with an offended peasant, an impromptu lunch at a halt near the curb, military mobilization, an overnight campfire. Gradually, people begin to endure and somewhat understand each other. By the morning of April 6, they arrive in Belgrade and die as a result of the colossal bombing of the Yugoslav capital.
Cast
- Pavle Vuisic - Kristich , owner and conductor of the bus;
- Alexander Berchek - Mishko Kristich , his son, a bus driver;
- Milivozh Tomich - a “veteran” , a participant in the First World War , a patriot, is going to visit his son, recently mobilized in the army;
- Danilo Stoykovich - "mustachioed" , a constant polemicist with a "veteran", a Germanophile;
- Slavko Štimac - groom ;
- Neda Arnerich - the bride , along with the groom travels through the capital to the sea on a small honeymoon;
- Dragan Nikolic - performer of popular songs , goes to audition, openly cares for the bride ;
- Tashko Nachich - the hunter ;
- Boro Stepanovich - “bald” , suffering from tuberculosis , goes for examination;
- Bora Todorovich - "the mourner at the funeral . "
Artistic Features
From the very beginning of the film, bus passengers have hardly put up with the requests of a greedy conductor, but they soon realize that they simply have no other way to get to the capital. In the absence of an alternative, the bus turns into something much more, and the picture becomes a political, anti-war satire and social protest. At the same time, sarcastic generalizations remain at a moderate level and are not imposed on the viewer as the only true judgment. A variety of passengers is not accidental (closer to the finale even a priest and military personnel join them). This is not a wandering circus with random comedic characters, it is society itself, its “center” with stereotypes precisely marked [4] .
Exploring a rather trivial trip, the authors created an indicative microcosm , the tension of the closed space of a divided society. With an abundance of comic situations reaching the point of absurdity, the main tone of the film remains the desire to reveal the existing vile aspects of human nature, the absurdity of some social traditions and conventions. The last scene is especially revealing in this respect: the beating of teenage gypsies unfounded accused of stealing a few minutes before the participants in the massacre die under Nazi bombs [5] .
Rewards
- 1981 - International Film Festival in Chicago , nomination for an award for the best feature film;
- 1981 - International Film Festival in Montreal , Ecumenical Jury Prize, special jury prize to Slobodan Shiyan;
- 1980 - Yugoslav Film Festival in Pula , best supporting actor - Alexander Berchek.
Criticism
According to the publication East European Film Bulletin , the film anticipates, or even opens, the entire post-Yugoslav cinema of the 1990s with its specific “Balkan” humor [4] . The same publication emphasizes the complexity of perception for foreign critics and viewers of everyday comic stories with national color. Together with “Who sings there?”, Another comedy film of high artistic merit, but completely inaccessible for analysis by the Western cinema school, is called the comedy of George Danelia “ Mimino ” (USSR) [4] . According to the reviews of the Croatian weekly magazine Nacional [6]
| “Who sings there?” - a wise, multi-layered, stylistically perfect fun masterpiece! |
According to the author of the script, Dusan Kovachevich, the film was supposed to crown the scene where, as a result of the bombardment, animals run away from the Belgrade Zoo and rush about among the smoking city ruins. However, on May 4, 1980, President of Yugoslavia Broz died. All borders were blocked and guarded in high mode. Because of this, the Italian zoo, whose animals were to become participants in the finale of the picture, could not get into the country. Later, the idea of such a scene was used in the underground project of Emir Kusturica [7] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Uploading Freebase data - Google .
- ↑ Who sings there . Slavic messenger. Date of treatment May 13, 2015.
- ↑ Blic. Kako su nastali Maratonci, Ko to tamo peva ... (neopr.) . Kurir (12/9/2013). Date of treatment May 13, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Kuzma K. Slobodan Šijan's Who's Singin 'Over There? (Ko to tamo peva, 1980) (English) (unavailable link) . East European Film Bulletin (07/02/2012). Date of treatment May 14, 2015. Archived May 18, 2015.
- ↑ Qui chante la bas? (Fr.) . aVoir-aLire.com (05.22.2013). Date of appeal May 14, 2015.
- ↑ Akcić velikih prilika (Croatian) . Nacional (04.24.2007). Date of appeal May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Žmirić Z. Ko to tamo peva? (Horv.) . Popcorn Cinema (02/01/2005). Date of appeal May 14, 2015.
Links
- " Who sings there? ” (English) on the Internet Movie Database
- Who is singing there? (English) on the Rotten Tomatoes website