Who's Singin' Over There?

Original title: Ko to tamo peva

19801980
1h 26m

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8.8/10

15K

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Adventure Comedy Drama

It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.It's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.

IMDb RATING

8.8/10

15K

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Awards
- 5 wins & 1 nomination

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Miodrag Kostic and Nenad Kostic in Ko to tamo peva (1980)

Aleksandar Bercek and Pavle Vuisic in Ko to tamo peva (1980)

Aleksandar Bercek and Dragan Nikolic in Ko to tamo peva (1980)

Miodrag Kostic, Nenad Kostic, and Pavle Vuisic in Ko to tamo peva (1980)

Aleksandar Bercek, Petar Lupa, Boro Stjepanovic, Milivoje 'Mica' Tomic, and Pavle Vuisic in Ko to tamo peva (1980)

Pavle Vuisic and Milovan Tasic in Ko to tamo peva (1980)

Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic in Ko to tamo peva (1980)

Neda Arneric, Aleksandar Bercek, Miodrag Kostic, Petar Lupa, Dragan Nikolic, Slavko Stimac, Milivoje 'Mica' Tomic, and Pavle Vuisic in Ko to tamo peva (1980)

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On April 5, 1941, a date Serbs will recognize, men on a country road board Krstic's bus for Belgrade: two Gypsies who occasionally sing about misery, an aging war vet, a Nazi sympathizer, a dapper singer, a consumptive, and a man with a shotgun. Krstic is a world-weary cynic, out for a buck; the driver is his son, the simple, cheerful Misko. En route they pick up a priest and young newlyweds going to the seaside. Along the way, mis-adventure strikes: a flat tire, a rickety bridge, a farmer who's plowed the road, a funeral, two feuding families, an army detail, and a lost wallet slow the bus and expose rifts among the travelers. On April 6, amid rumors of war, they reach Belgrade... —<jhailey@hotmail.com>

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Trivia
In some scenes of the film, an old woman, clad entirely in black, is seen sitting at the back seat. No one ever talks to her, she plays no part in the film's plot, and she isn't listed in the end credits. Director Slobodan Sijan has allegedly said that she represents death, as well as the tragedy of the upcoming war. However, the film's screenwriter Dusan Kovacevic has said that: ''The old woman in black represents a part of Serbia which is completely isolated. She is an analogy of the old people who were left in some backwater villages by their families. There they live, day-by-day, accepting their fate, with little concern about the events in the world, and have created their own paradox of memory, habits and melancholy.''

Goofs
The bus that makes the center point of the film is a Mercedes-Benz O3500, which did not enter the production until 1949, eight years after the events in film take place.

Quotes
Kondukter: Vozi Misko...

Connections
Referenced in Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)

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One of the greatest films world has never heard about

This brilliant flick about several people traveling to Belgrade just before start of the WW2 in Yugoslavia is probably worth an Oscar or two. It is very profound, intelligent and, above all, funny. Jokes are typically Balkanesque, which makes it even more original in global circuits.

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