CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1989
Meeting Place posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1989 1h 38m YUG

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

An old archaeologist finds the Roman tombstone he's been searching for all his life. It covers the passage from "this" to "the other" world. While trying to move her, the professor has a heart attack and dies soon after. But, dead only to his surroundings, he is actually in a kind of state "between life and death." As he is both alive and dead at the same time, he establishes a connection between the living and the dead, so the dead, driven by the desire to see their relatives, go through the passage that the professor discovered under the Roman tombstone, to meet their loved ones in "this" world. But the world of the living is not what they imagined it to be.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Rade Marković

Rade Marković

Profesor Miša

Bogdan Diklić

Petar

Dragan Nikolić

Dragan Nikolić

Janko

Olivera Markovic

Angelina

Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic

Simeun

Aleksandar Berček

Ivan

Radmila Zivkovic

Lepa

Mirjana Karanović

Mirjana Karanović

Jelena Katić