Love and Other Crimes (2008)
"Ljubav i drugi zlocini" (original title)

Director:

Stefan Arsenijevic

Writers:

Stefan Arsenijevic, Srdjan Koljevic,

Stars:

Anica Dobra, Vuk Kostic, Milena Dravic

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Cast

Credited cast:
Anica Dobra	...	Anica
Vuk Kostic	...	Stanislav
Milena Dravic	...	Majka
Fedja Stojanovic	...	Milutin
Hanna Schwamborn	...	Ivana
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ljubomir Bandovic	...	Nikola
Strahinja Bojovic	...	Buca
Miomira Cosovic	...	Aerodromska sluzbenica
Zoran Cvijanovic	...	Zoran
Marko Djurovic	...	Decak
Boris Jager	...	Mladic s pistoljem
Ivan Jevtovic	...	Miki
Dragan Krtolina	...	Vlasnik restorana
Zoran Maksimovic	...	Klavijaturista
Anita Mancic	...	Nikolija

Storyline

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Taglines:

Before you start a new life, you have to end the old one.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Hungary]

Country:

Serbia Germany Austria Slovenia

Language:

Serbian

Release Date:

17 September 2008 (Serbia)

Also Known As:

Love and Other Crimes

Filming Locations:

New Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Icon Film, Art & Popcorn, KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

106 min 106 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Anica Dobra should have had a stunt double for the car crashing scene, but at the end decided to do the stunt scene herself.

User Reviews

the most unusual cinematic love story

Serbian cinema is again at the tops! This was a love story of the kind nobody else would think to put on screen. Yet it is so much more closer to those (un)happening in reality. Very sad and very deep and very simple film. Just a day of a few people in their late youth, in a Belgrade suburb of tower blocks, illustrates the throes of an entire generation caught in the postcommunist period (or shall I say, the postcommunist abyss).

Leaving everything behind and starting a new life somewhere else is not as easy as we know it from the movies. Staying, on the other hand, is a limbo. But when your heart is so kind, is ever a new beginning possible?

'Besa me mucho' runs a hundred times, it is the only soundtrack. The grey concrete blocks are unexpectedly beautiful, it is the only landscape. The petty post-communist gangsters are confusingly human and sympathetic, it is the main characters.

Stefan Arsenijevic fairly got the director's award of the 2008 Sofia Film Festival 'for the humanity and lyricism of his style'. The other Serbian entry, 'Hadersfild', was also a very powerful film.