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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Šijan again pairs a grotesque Serbian family ensemble with deadpan escalation, morbid humor, and precisely staged social satire—an especially close match for the bus journey’s comic fatalism.
02
Why this pick
Its rambunctious Balkan ensemble, eccentric musicians, crumbling schemes, and buoyant visual chaos carry a similarly affectionate, anarchic energy beneath the disorder.
03
Why this pick
This warm, sharply observed Yugoslav period comedy finds social upheaval reflected through a youthful, eccentric world, with the same ability to make history feel immediate and absurd.
04
Why this pick
A child’s perspective gives this political satire a deceptively playful tone, while its oddball characters and gently surreal humor echo the comic social portraiture of Šijan’s film.
05
Why this pick
Its grotesque, darkly comic view of Europe on the edge of war shares the original’s blend of historical dread, heightened caricature, and irreverent storytelling.
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01 / THE STORY
On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two Romani people musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstić Sr., and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Miško.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Conductor
Miško
Pevač šlagera
Brka
The Bride
The Groom
Aleksa Simić
The Bald Guy
