There is a love triangle and there are the bombs of the second World War, there’s the Nazi invasion and there are the Titoists, there is a civil war and there are the inevitable consequences of friendship and deceit. But mostly, there are fifty years of the history of Yugoslavia told with the visionary power of dreams, the unfurled sails of the fantastic and the euphoria of comedy which slips into the fatalist acceptance of tragedy. Between Fellini and Angelopoulos, between a begrudging lyricism and Baroque poeticism, between the violence in images and metaphorical vistas, this is Kusturica’s best film.
DIRECTOR: Emir Kusturica
NATION: Jugoslavia, Germania, Francia, Ungheria, Repubblica Ceca
YEAR: 1995
RUNTIME: 167′
CAST: Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Mirjana Jokovic, Lazar Ristovski, Slavko Stimac