Jovan Aćin

A story about acquaintance arranged via matrimonial ads in the newspapers. At the same time, it is a story about an attempt to marry and tragicomic ballad about the unusual end of a relationship that arose between the warehouseman Nidza and the potential bride Rada.

A 1972 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Jovan Acin, starring Slobodan Perović, Renata Ulmanski and Marko Todorović.

Koka is a woman who does not find understanding for herself either in her daughter, or in her brother, or in her immediate surroundings. She left behind a bitter experience of a failed relationship with her ex-husband Jezdimir, but also the current disappointments.

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Experienced crane driver helps a village boy to get along in the big city.

A story about acquaintance arranged via matrimonial ads in the newspapers. At the same time, it is a story about an attempt to marry and tragicomic ballad about the unusual end of a relationship that arose between the warehouseman Nidza and the potential bride Rada.

A 1972 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Jovan Acin, starring Slobodan Perović, Renata Ulmanski and Marko Todorović.

Koka is a woman who does not find understanding for herself either in her daughter, or in her brother, or in her immediate surroundings. She left behind a bitter experience of a failed relationship with her ex-husband Jezdimir, but also the current disappointments.

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Experienced crane driver helps a village boy to get along in the big city.

Experienced crane driver helps a village boy to get along in the big city.