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Who's Singin' Over There?

1980 · 84 min

A slow, absurd bus ride through a doomed countryside, funny and bleak, with a haunting song that lingers.

Directed by
Slobodan Šijan
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Starring
Pavle Vuisić, Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić, Danilo 'Bata' Stojković
Overview
On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstic senior, and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Misko.

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Directed by
Slobodan Šijan
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Starring
Pavle Vuisić, Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić, Danilo 'Bata' Stojković
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • fate
  • death
  • identity
  • survival
Places
  • countryside
  • road trip
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour7
Realism7
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, comedy, adventure
Directed by
Slobodan Šijan
Written by
Dušan Kovačević
Starring
Pavle Vuisić, Dragoslav 'Dragan' Nikolić, Danilo 'Bata' Stojković, Aleksandar Berček, Neda Arnerić, Milivoje 'Mića' Tomić, Taško Načić, Boro Stjepanović
Music
Vojislav Kostić
Cinematography
Božidar 'Bota' Nikolić
Runtime
84 min
Country
Yugoslavia
Languages
Serbian

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