Sjecas li se Dolly Bell (1981)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Emir Kusturica

Writers:

Emir Kusturica (writer)
Abdulah Sidran (writer)

Release Date:

15 August 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and...

Plot Keywords:

Sarajevo | Prostitute | 1960s | Terminal Illness | Urination Scene

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Slavko Stimac	...	Dino
Slobodan Aligrudic	...	Father
Ljiljana Blagojevic	...	Dolly Bell
Mira Banjac	...	Mother
Pavle Vujisic	...	Uncle
Nada Pani	...	Aunt
Boro Stjepanovic	...	Cvikeras
Zika Ristic	...	Cica
Jasmin Celo
Mirsad Zulic	...	Braco Sintor
Ismet Delahmet
Jovanka Paripovic
Mahir Imamovic
Zakira Stjepanovic
Tomislav Gelic

Also Known As:

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (International: English title)
Te souviens-tu de Dolly Bell?

Runtime:

Argentina:107 min | Yugoslavia:110 min

Country:

Yugoslavia

Language:

Serbo-Croatian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:16

Company:

C.F.S. Kosutnjak

art outlasts politics

Seeing "Dolly Bell" during the recent war in Kosovo forced me to think of the political significance of the film. Almost twenty years after the film was made, Yugoslavia is an extraordinarily different place, albeit one in which traditions die hard. But whether considered in relation to the Yugoslavia of the early 80s or to today's Serbia, what impresses about "Dolly Bell" is its filmmakers' devotion to art and the human condition rather than to a political agenda. It has not become an artifact because it was made to provoke human sympathy, not political reaction. "Dolly Bell" is not a tragicomic masterpiece like "Underground" nor a celebration of optimism and levity in the face of absurdity and injustice as are "When Father Was Away on Business" and "Time of the Gypsies": it is not Kusturica's most clever film, but it is perhaps his most enduring.