Underplayed Gems

Who's Singin' Over There? (1980)

Who's Singin' Over There? poster
Original title
Ко то тамо пева
Directed by
Slobodan Šijan
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 164 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of strangers travel by bus toward Belgrade in 1941, just before the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia. Their journey becomes a series of mishaps and conflicts that reveal their selfishness and absurdity.

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What happens

Who's Singin' Over There? (Serbo-Croatian: Ko to tamo peva) is a 1980 Yugoslav film written by Dušan Kovačević and directed by Slobodan Šijan. It is a dark comedy and features an ensemble cast. The film tells a story about a group of passengers traveling by bus to Belgrade in 1941, during the last days of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, just before its invasion by the Axis. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In 1996, the Yugoslav Board of the Academy of Film Art and Science (AFUN) voted this movie the best Serbian movie made in the 1947–1995 period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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