Director
The plot of this television movie is located in Belgrade, the hometown of screenwriter Velimir Lukic, in the 1960s. It was the time of the party discipline, in which the free thinking and free behavior of individuals meant heresy. This is a drama about political showdown, about the metamorphosis of high-level intellectuals ready to do anything to defy the authorities and retain their privileges. At the same time - this is also a love story that, under the political circumstances that accompany it, is misused precisely because of those well-known higher goals.
First Assistant Director
Siete estudiantes de California se embarcan en un singular viaje de estudios a Yugoslavia. De la mano de un extraño profesor local llegan a un inhóspito pueblo en el que el tiempo parece haberse detenido siglos atrás, y no tardan en convertirse en partícipes involuntarios de un apasionado juego, un ancestral ritual serbio. Una de las estudiantes, una preciosa chica con una extraña marca de nacimiento en el abdomen, es tomada como la señalada por las profecías.
Popular TV series has been reedited into a theatrical film with additional material that has not been seen on TV before. The film is a homage to the legends of the Yugoslav theater, some of whom are no longer alive. The story takes place in the town for ten years from 1931 to 1941 and shows the conflict of progressive and humane ideas with fascism. A film made from the TV series of the same name (nine episodes) realized in 1976 and shown in 1977.
