The Bizarre Country

The Bizarre Country () is a 1988 former Yugoslav drama/fantasy film based on the satirical novellas Stradija and Danga, written by Serbian writer Radoje Domanović.

Plot

A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wanders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.

Cast

Lazar Ristovski as The Traveler

Jasmina Avramović as The Blackhaired Girl

Dragan Maksimović as The Painter

Enver Petrovci as The New Chief of Police

Milija Vuković as The Old Chief of Police

Milutin Butković as The Higher Clerk of the Ministry

Milenko Zablaćanski as The Guitarist

Branislav Platiša as The Violinist

Živojin Milenković as The Minister of Agriculture

Branko Pleša as The Minister of the Foreign Affairs

Dragoljub Milosavljević as The Minister of Finance

Spiro Guberina as The Minister of The Inner Affairs

Gordana Gadžić as The Painter's Sister

Mihajlo Viktorović as The Minister of Economy

Karlo Molnar as The Courier of the Ministry

See also

Cinema of Yugoslavia

Cinema of Serbia

External links

1988 films

Serbian fantasy drama films

1980s Serbian-language films

1980s fantasy drama films

Yugoslav fantasy drama films

1988 drama films