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Balkan Express 2

1989 · 1 season

A wry, shaggy wartime farce where bumbling crooks keep stumbling into danger, played with deadpan Balkan humour and a melancholy undertow.

Created by
Miloš Radović, Aleksandar Đorđević
Genres
Comedy, War & politics
Starring
Borivoje Todorović, Velimir 'Bata' Živojinović, Aleksandar Berček
Overview
TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.

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Created by
Miloš Radović, Aleksandar Đorđević
Genres
Comedy, War & politics
Starring
Borivoje Todorović, Velimir 'Bata' Živojinović, Aleksandar Berček
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Tone
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • deception
  • survival
  • crime
  • loyalty
Places
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour6
Realism5
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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