Ko to Tamo Peva (1980)
4.3 of 5 from 50 ratings
1h 26min
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- Synopsis:
On April 5, 1941, a date Serbs will recognise, men on a country road board Krstic's bus for Belgrade: two Gypsies who occasionally sing about misery, an aging war vet, a Nazi sympathiser, 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 Miško (Aleksandar Bercek). 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 travellers. On April 6, amid rumours of war, they reach Belgrade... - Actors:
- Pavle Vuisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Aleksandar Bercek, Neda Arneric, Milivoje Tomic, Tasko Nacic, Boro Stjepanovic, Slavko Stimac, Miodrag Kostic, Nenad Kostic, Bora Todorovic, Slobodan Aligrudic, Petar Lupa, Stanojlo Milinkovic, Ljubomir Cipranic, Djenadija Rogic, Milovan Tasic
- Directors:
- Slobodan Sijan
- Producers:
- Milan Zmukic
- Writers:
- Dusan Kovacevic
- Aka:
- Хто там співає?
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Countries:
- Yugoslavia
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Reviews (1) of Ko to Tamo Peva
Everyone's Looking the Wrong Way - Ko to Tamo Peva review by griggs
You'd be forgiven for expecting Kusturica's name in the credits. Same energy: chaotic ensemble, dark slapstick, history bearing down on people too busy arguing to look up. Šijan got there first.
Ko To Tamo Peva loads a bus to Belgrade on April 5th, 1941 — the day before the Luftwaffe arrives — with two Romani musicians, a WWI vet, a consumptive, a hunter with a loaded shotgun, and a handful of people who really don't want to think about what's coming. From minute one you know exactly how this ends, and the film knows you know. The cast is good enough that it doesn't matter.
The middle sags. Flat tyre, army checkpoint, feuding families — it starts to feel like a list rather than a journey. The ending, though, lands harder than I expected.
Kusturica got the fame. This one deserved more of it.
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