Ko to tamo peva
| Who's Singin' Over There? | |
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Yugoslav cinema release film poster, designed by Mirko Ilić
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| Serbo-Croatian | Ko to tamo peva |
| Directed by | Slobodan Šijan |
| Produced by | Milan Zmukić |
| Written by | Dušan Kovačević |
| Starring |
Pavle Vujisić Dragan Nikolić Danilo Stojković Aleksandar Berček Neda Arnerić Milivoje Tomić Taško Načić Boro Stjepanović Slavko Štimac Miodrag Kostić Nenad Kostić |
| Music by | Vojislav Kostić |
| Cinematography | Božidar Nikolić |
| Edited by | Lana Vukobratović |
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Radio Television Belgrade (Yugoslavia, video) International Home Cinema (USA, all media) |
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Release date
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23 October 1980 |
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Running time
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87 minutes |
| Country | Yugoslavia |
| Language | Serbo-Croatian |
| Budget | DEM180,000 |
Who's Singin' Over There? (Serbo-Croatian: Ko to tamo peva) is a 1980 Yugoslav film written by Dušan Kovačević and directed by Slobodan Šijan. It is a dark comedy and features an ensemble cast. The film tells a story about a group of passengers traveling by bus to Belgrade in 1941, during the last days of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, just before the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In 1996, the Yugoslav Board of the Academy of Film Art and Science (AFUN) voted this movie the best Serbian movie made in the 1947–1995 period.
On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Axis invasion 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 Krstić Sr., and driven by his impressionable son Miško.
Along the way, they are joined by a priest and a pair of young newlyweds who are on their way to the seaside for their honeymoon, and are faced with numerous difficulties: a flat tire, a shaky bridge, a farmer who's ploughed over the road, a funeral, two feuding families, Krstić Jr.'s recruitment into the army, and a lost wallet. All these slow the bus down and expose rifts among the travelers.
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