6/24/2023 0 Comments When i am dead and goneHighly recommend both waves if you're interested in discovering the unique mentality of Serbian people. Plus, an interesting thing for cinema lovers! There were to main movie waves in Yugoslavia - ''black wave'' and ''red wave'', the black wave shows the struggles of living in a freshly formed communist country from the perspective of ordinary people, while the ''red wave'' shows exactly the opposite - brave Partizans who fought Germans. Dragan Nikolic, one of Serbia's most beloved actors fantastically plays a young attractive man who has no limits when it comes for wanting to live a better life! No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it, for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. Young people become developing ambitions and dreams like their fellow young people in Western Europe and the US, all the while struggling with the repressive regime and all the nonsense that comes with it. Comprised of six republics and a yet a few cities, it is a dominantly rural environment. When it was re-released in 1990, it achieved a cult status that it has today.Ī gem of Yugoslav/Serbian cinematography! The movie represents an interesting stream in cinema history that is called ''Yugoslavian black wave'', which portrays life in a newly formed socialistic republic of Yugoslavia. It also shows bottom of morality in different social categories, which also wasn't considered "appropriate" at the time. This film by the famous Yugoslav director, Zivojin Pavlovic, was originally banned by the communist authorities upon it's release in 1967, because it portrayed a realistic picture of the Yugoslav "60's economic boom", which consisted of massive industrialization of rural areas, building huge numbers of, as one of the characters in the movie puts it "political factories", which were set up without any economic logic, and on massive foreign debt, that was generously spent without any restrain. On one of his travels he meets a young girl he takes to Belgrade to accompany him on an amateur singing contest, where he fails miserably, since he can't follow a tune, and abandoning her, teams up with his former girlfriend, also a pickpocket, which takes him to his final journey. Janko Bugarski "Dimi Barka" is a small time wallet snatcher, and an aspiring singer, who wants to make it big with as little effort as he can, traveling through industrial areas and looking for affairs with local women and easy money.
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