Kad budem mrtav i beo (1967)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Zivojin Pavlovic

Writers:

Ljubisa Kozomara (writer)
Gordan Mihic (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Cast

Slobodan Aligrudic	...	Upravnik Milutin
Miodrag Andric	...	Dzimijev cimer I
Severin Bijelic	...	Oficir
Dara Calenic	...	Mica
Ljubomir Cipranic
Aleksandar Gavric	...	Dule
Olga Jancevecka
Milan Jelic	...	Dzimijev cimer II
Ljiljana Jovanovic
Snezana Lukic
Petar Lupa	...	Sofer
Vojislav Micovic	...	Radnik
Branislav-Ciga Milenkovic	...	Violinista
Zika Milenkovic	...	Kelner
Nikola Milic	...	Ciganin's gitarom
Predrag Milinkovic	...	Zeleznicar
Svetolik Nikacevic
Dragan Nikolic	...	Dzimi Barka
Djordje Pura
Alenka Rancic
Ruzica Sokic	...	Duska ... pevacica
Milorad Spasojevic	...	Novinar
Neda Spasojevic	...	Lilica
Borivoje Stojanovic
Zorica Sumadinac	...	Bojana
Milivoje Tomic	...	Poslovodja
Janez Vrhovec
Vladan Zivkovic	...	Bubreg

Also Known As:

When I Am Dead and Gone (International: English title)

Runtime:

79 min

Country:

Yugoslavia

Language:

Serbo-Croatian

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Filmska Radna Zajednica (FRZ)

Trivia:

This film was the inspiration for Midnight Cowboy (1969), according to it's director John Schlesinger.

A late 60's cult classic

Janko Bugarski "Džimi Barka" is a small time wallet snatcher, and an aspiring singer, who wants to make it big with as little effort as he can, traveling through industrial areas and looking for affairs with local women and easy money. On one of his travels he meets a young girl he takes to Belgrade to accompany him on an amateur singing contest, where he fails miserably, since he can't follow a tune, and abandoning her, teams up with his former girlfriend, also a pick pocket, which takes him to his final journey.

This film by the famous Yugoslav director, Zivojin Pavlovic, was originally banned by the communist authorities upon it's release in 1967, because it portrayed a realistic picture of the Yugoslav "60's economic boom", which consisted of massive industrialization of rural areas, building huge numbers of, as one of the characters in the movie puts it "political factories", which were set up without any economic logic, and on massive foreign debt, that was generously spent without any restrain. It also shows bottom of morality in different social categories, which also wasn't considered "appropriate" at the time. When it was re-released in 1990, it achieved a cult status that it has today.