Ko to tamo peva (1980)

User Rating:

8.6/10   

Director:

Slobodan Sijan

Writer:

Dusan Kovacevic (writer)

Release Date:

1 January 1980 (Yugoslavia)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade...

Plot Keywords:

Bus | Belgrade | Gypsy | Black Comedy | WWII

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Pavle Vujisic	...	Kondukter
Dragan Nikolic	...	Pevac
Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic	...	Brka (as Danilo Stojkovic)
Aleksandar Bercek	...	Misko Krstic
Neda Arneric	...	Mlada
Milivoje Tomic	...	Aleksa Simic
Tasko Nacic	...	Lovac
Boro Stjepanovic	...	Celavi (as Borislav Stjepanovic)
Slavko Stimac	...	Mladozenja
Miodrag Kostic	...	Muzikant I
Nenad Kostic	...	Muzikant II
Bora Todorovic	...	Ozalosceni
Slobodan Aligrudic	...	Porucnik
Petar Lupa	...	Pop
Stanojlo Milinkovic	...	Orac

Also Known As:

Who Sings Over There (USA)
Who's Singin' Over There? (Canada: English title)
Who's Singing Over There? (USA)

Runtime:

Canada:86 min

Country:

Yugoslavia

Language:

Serbo-Croatian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Centar Film

Trivia:

[mild spoiler warning] The final bombing scene was originally meant to include wild animals from the bombed zoo roaming through the city, which indeed happened; in fact, the old newspapers article about this event was one of inspirations for the author Dusan Kovacevic. Unfortunately, at the time that the movie was being shot Tito, the long time president of communist era Yugoslavia, died which resulted in the extended mourning period that effectively canceled all entertainment activities in the country - including the circus tour that was meant to provide the animals for the scene. Since working with untrained animals from a zoo was deemed too dangerous, the authors reluctantly had to abandon the idea at the time. However, the idea was used in the opening scene of Underground (1995), some 15 years later.

Movie Connections:

References Stagecoach (1939)

The most intelligent comedy ever made in Serbia

The group of people are travelling to Belgrade in an awful bus led by a drunk conductor and his dumb son (who likes to drive with his eyes closed). Their journey is frequently interrupted by many hilarious events which with much irony describe the fall of nation`s spirit in 1941 and are so funny that they are even today used as a common jokes. The man who "steals the show" is a peasant 4 feet tall with his 4 sons who are almost two times bigger than him. In the end, the movie takes one dramatical turn and the trip becomes nothing but a swan`s song of a dying country.