The Marathon Family
(1982)
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The Marathon Family
(1982)
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Bogdan Diklic | ... |
Mirko Topalovic
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Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic | ... |
Laki Topalovic
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Pavle Vujisic | ... |
Milutin Topalovic
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Mija Aleksic | ... |
Aksentije Topalovic
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Milivoje Tomic | ... |
Maksimilijan Topalovic
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Radislav Lazarevic | ... |
Pantelija Topalovic
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Zoran Radmilovic | ... |
Bili Piton
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Jelisaveta Sablic | ... |
Kristina
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Bora Todorovic | ... |
Djenka
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Melita Bihali | ... |
Olja
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Fahro Konjhodzic | ... |
Gospodin Rajkovic
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Veljko Mandic | ... |
Rajkovicev brat
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Mihajlo-Bata Paskaljevic | ... |
Stariji zandar
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Dragoljub-Gula Milosavljevic | ... |
(as Dragoljub Milosavljevic)
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Miroslav Jovanovic | ... |
Blizanac I
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The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance. Written by Damir Dukich <Damir.Dukic@snet.fri.uni-lj.si>
There is a set of movies that leaves me absolutely speechless, actually to be more precise, unable to find superlatives to describe their true genius. It's the case of Wong Kar Wai's Fa Yeung Nin Wa or Ron Fricke's Baraka or Theo Angelopoulos' Eternity and a Day. Those films have absolutely nothing in common as related to topic, genre or style yet they represent lonely peaks in a desert of movies that can not raise up to their stature. It's one of those movies that keeps you breathlessly clinged up to the end, and I am not talking about suspense. When it is over, you will exclaim: "I've never seen anything like it". Even viewed for the tenth time, "the marathon family" will produce a breeze of freshness, exquisite humour(that western people usually don't appreciate...) and astonishment. The metaphor reveals itself towards the end, in an accelerated rhythm - war between brothers and the fall of a nation, also lamented by Kusturica in Underground in a similar humourish yet bitter fashion. I give it a definite ten (10). Chapeau Bas!!!