Teja, a professor, writer, and a passionate
opponent of the Milosevic régime, is now the manager
of a big publishing house. One day, a strange visitor comes
uninvited to his office, carrying a big suitcase. Luka, a
former agent of Serbian Security service, is now a taxi driver,
but he’s spent the last 10 years documenting Teja’s
every move—and in some ways shaping it. Thus begins
an amazing and most unlikely encounter that leaps back and
forth in time, offering an always shifting, blackly comic
view of history. Winner of the International Critics and Best
Screenplay Prizes at the Montreal Film Festival. “For
its skill in conveying personal and political re-awakenings
with wit, dark humor and ingenious construction,” Kovacevic’s
sly film is this year’s Serbian submission for the Best
Foreign Film Oscar. (104 mins.) Print courtesy of Limelight
Films.
Selected Filmography: Balkanski Spijun (81); screenplays:
Who’s Singing Over There? (80); The Marathon Family
(86).
SHOWTIMES: 2/26, 8pm; 2/27,
9:30pm and 2/28, 3pm B2. |
