Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
(1981)
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Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
(1981)
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Slavko Stimac | ... |
Dino
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Slobodan Aligrudic | ... |
Father
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Ljiljana Blagojevic | ... |
Dolly Bell
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Mira Banjac | ... |
Mother
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Pavle Vujisic | ... |
Uncle
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Nada Pani | ... |
Aunt
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Boro Stjepanovic | ... |
Cvikeras
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Zivko 'Zika' Ristic | ... |
Cica
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Jasmin Celo |
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Mirsad Zulic | ... |
Braco Sintor
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Ismet Delahmet |
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Jovanka Paripovic |
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Mahir Imamovic |
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Zakira Stjepanovic |
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Tomislav Gelic |
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A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. They hire him to hide a young prostitute and he falls in love with her. Written by Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
whichever corner of the balkans is called home, it is all but unuarguable that Kusturica is the region's greatest filmmaker. i have enjoyed all of his films - most especially "Otac na sluzbenom putu" and "Underground" - but none disturbed me quite like this one disturbed me.
the reason is that he portrays a (former) Yugoslavia i do not know, and have never known. both my parents fled the "acceptable face of communism" during the very years this film shows almost nostalgically. they were roughly the same age as the main character, yet their experience of Tito's paradise was completely and utterly apposite to what Kusturica shows on the screen. the world they knew was one of deprivation and disappearances and harassment and they could not get away from it fast enough.
i am not saying either viewpoint is right or wrong. i just find it eye-openingly disturbing that the same place at the same time can be remembered in such radically different ways.
i believe there is a lesson in that for all of us, especially those of us whose roots lie in the balkans.