Who's Singin' Over There? (1980)

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

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.

darkly comicsatiricaltensebleakclaustrophobicunsettlingperiodslow-burn

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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