| Release Date: | Jun 1982 |
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| Genre: | Comedy |
| Awards: | 3 wins |
| Runtime: | 86 min |
| Cast: | Pavle Vujisic (Kondukter) Dragan Nikolic (Pevac) Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic (Brka (as Danilo Stojkovic)) Aleksandar Bercek (Misko Krstic) Neda Arneric (Mlada) Milivoje Tomic (Aleksa Simic) Tasko Nacic (Lovac) Boro Stjepanovic (Celavi (as Borislav Stjepanovic)) Slavko Stimac (Mladozenja) Miodrag Kostic (Muzikant I) Nenad Kostic (Muzikant II) Bora Todorovic (Ozalosceni) Slobodan Aligrudic (Porucnik) Petar Lupa (Pop) Stanojlo Milinkovic (Orac) Ljubomir Cipranic (Kaplar) Milovan Tasic (Oracev sin koji busi gumu (uncredited)) |
On April 5, 1941, a date Serbs will recognize, men on a country road board Krstic's bus for Belgrade: two Gypsies who occasionally sing about misery, an aging war vet, a Nazi sympathizer, a dapper singer, a consumptive, and a man with a shotgun. Krstic is a world-weary cynic, out for a buck; the driver is his son, the simple, cheerful Misko. En route they pick up a priest and young newlyweds going to the seaside. Along the way, mis-adventure strikes: a flat tire, a rickety bridge, a farmer who's plowed the road, a funeral, two feuding families, an army detail, and a lost wallet slow the bus and expose rifts among the travelers. On April 6, amid rumors of war, they reach Belgrade...
