Who's Singin' Over There?

An old bus, owned by "Krstic & son" is heading from unnamed province to the capital Belgrade, just one day before Nazis attacked Yugoslavia in april 1941. The writer Dusan Kovacevic stated that this story was inspired by true events and real people. They all had their reasons why they needed to get to Belgrade as soon as possible, not knowing that their destiny was uncertain. And their stories and characters get twisted together in a series of events that make you laugh in disbelief. This comedy and drama is so popular in all of ex Yugoslavia, that even young people know the most of dialogs from this movie by heart. They have become the part of the popular culture. Dusan Kovacevic manages to make those characters so real and alive. The ...

<i>Ko to tamo peva?</i> is one of Yugoslavia's film classics. It was shot and released in 1980, but it looks back to a tragic era in the country's history: the opening titles announce that what we will see takes place on 5 April 1941, a date that any Yugoslav at this time would recognize as the day before the German invasion. In a non-descript countryside, a bus stops for a motley crew of passengers all headed for Belgrade. They include a grizzled old WWI veteran (Milivoje "Mića" Tomic), a dandy hoping to audition at a caberet (Dragan Nikolic), a germanophile who may well be a spy (Bata Stojković), and a newlywed couple (Slavko Stimac, Neda Arneric). Also on board are two gypsies (Miodrag and Nenad Kostić) who periodically comment on the ac...