The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984) Varljivo leto '68
The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
DVDRip | MKV | 692x458 | x264 @ 1900 Kbps | 89 min | 1,31 Gb
Audio: Serbian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Writers: Gordan Mihic, Goran Paskaljevic (screenplay)
Stars: Slavko Stimac, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Mira Banjac
Set against the backdrop of a liberalization in Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia in 1968, this comedy is about the coming of age of Petar (Slavko Stimac) as he looks for love just about anywhere, now that he has discovered it exists. His father (Danilo Stojkovic) is a distant sort who wants him to focus on his grades so he will have a chance at a good future (and be a good Marxist), but Petar's card-shark of a grandfather understands and offers him the advice he needs.
This movie will always stay in my memory as one of the funniest and best comedies I ever saw back in former Yugoslavia. It centers around the eldest son (Stimac) of a family led by a strict authoritarian father in Danilo Bata Stojkovic's magnificent incarnation. The young Petar struggles to graduate from high school mainly for one reason-he is so infatuated with his Marxism teacher that he cannot think of anything else but her during the classes. So when the graduation time comes, he lies to his father about passing in all the subjects while in reality flunking in Marxism.
Of course, the truth is not easy to hide and when it eventually comes out, his father is appalled and decides to punish him and lead his mind off from girls by finding a job for him in a local bakery. But that becomes complicated too when it turns out a beautiful and voluptuous girl is working there and she is an easy catch as well! Complications and comical twists just keep coming and coming here and the laughter never ceases.
All this is going on during a very turbulent time, the '68 student revolution. My favorite scene is when Stojkovic throws out the TV because of the student uprising claiming it's immoral to watch it and then when Tito approves of the reforms he brings it back saying "Comrade Tito has said that the students are right. We can watch television again!" Paskaljevic was a master of socio comedy and all the actors do a great job. The ending is specially great and this is probably Slavko Stimac's best role.
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The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984) Varljivo leto '68
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