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NEVER SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD (O POKOJNIKU SVE NAJLEPŠE) (Past Film)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World PROD FIN
 
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Completed - SERBIAN - Drama - 95 minutes

Year of production : 1984

Director(s) : Predrag ANTONIJEVIC
Writer(s) : Dusko PERKOVIC, Predrag ANTONIJEVIC
Cast : Zvonimir LEOETIC, Radmila ZIVKOVIC, Bora TODOROVIC, Bogdan DIKLIC, Petar KRALJ, Pavle VUJISIC, Dragoljub MILOSAVLJEVIC, Sanja VEINOVIC, Borislav STJEPANOVIC, Tihomir ARSIC

Synopsis

The action of the film takes place immediately after the end of the Second World War in Gornji Jaukovac, a typical small village somewhere in Serbia. The president of the National Council schemes together with the peasants, while think up different ways through which to avoid the obligatory sale of wheat and other state duties. In the district, they decide to replace him as he is considered to be a “Menshevik”. However, he succeeds in escaping this situation successfully…While catching fish with hand grenades; he comes upon an unexploded bomb left over from the war. In attempting to take out the explosive, he is blown to bits…Observing the unwritten rule – never speak ill of the dead - the school in Jaukovac is named after him…

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Country(ies) : SERBIA


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