CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1998
Black Cat, White Cat posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1998 2h 7m SRB

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Matko Destanov, a small-time Romani people smuggler and profiteer, lives with his teenage son Zare in a ramshackle house by the Danube in eastern Serbia near the Bulgarian border.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Srđan Todorović

Dadan Karambolo

Predrag Laković

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