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A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1984
The Elusive Summer of '68 posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1984 1h 31m YUG

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Slavko Štimac

Slavko Štimac

Petar Cvetkovic

Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic

Veselin Cvetkovic

Mira Banjac

Petrova majka

Mija Aleksic

Deda

Ivana Mihic

Vladica

Sanja Vejnović

Sanja Vejnović

Ruženjka Hrabalova

Dragana Varagic

Jagodinka Simonovic

Neda Arneric

Olja Miranovski